Dream country, Shannon Gibney
Type
Label
Dream country, Shannon Gibney
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Dream country
Oclc number
1016403949
Responsibility statement
Shannon Gibney
Summary
2008, Minneapolis. Kollie Flomo, at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community, turns to violence. 1926, Liberia. Togar Somah, an indigenous Liberian, is on the run from government militias that would force him to work the plantations of the Congo people, descendants of the African American slaves who colonized Liberia almost a century earlier. 1827. The children of Yasmine Wright leave a Virginia plantation with their mother for Liberia, promised freedom by the American Colonization Society. 1980. Ujay and Evelyn dare to believe their love can survive Liberia's approaching revolution. 2018, Minneapolis. A dreamer attempts to weave her family's history into a new future.-- adapted from jacket
Target audience
adolescent
Creator
Subject
- Families -- Liberia -- Juvenile fiction
- Refugees -- Juvenile fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Slavery
- Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Juvenile fiction
- Americans -- Liberia -- Juvenile fiction
- Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction
- Liberian Americans
- Historical fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Liberia
- Families -- Minnesota -- Juvenile fiction
- Minnesota
- Slavery -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Liberian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Americans -- Liberia -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Fiction
- Refugees -- Fiction
- Families
- Family life -- Liberia -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Refugees
- Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Juvenile fiction
- Liberian Americans -- Fiction
- Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Fiction
- African Americans
- Family life -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Africa
Author
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification4
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject32
- Families -- Liberia -- Juvenile fiction
- Refugees -- Juvenile fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Slavery
- Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Juvenile fiction
- Americans -- Liberia -- Juvenile fiction
- Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction
- Liberian Americans
- Historical fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Liberia
- Families -- Minnesota -- Juvenile fiction
- Minnesota
- Slavery -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Liberian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Americans -- Liberia -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Fiction
- Refugees -- Fiction
- Families
- Family life -- Liberia -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Refugees
- Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Juvenile fiction
- Liberian Americans -- Fiction
- Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Fiction
- African Americans
- Family life -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Africa
- Author1
- Mapped to1