Corey - Softcover

Jane Claypool Miner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590403958 ISBN 13: 9780590403955

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1987

Synopsis

Freedom gave her the right to live, the chance to love. She escaped from the South to the North, where a boy captured her heart. In 1864, 16-year-old Corey has known only slavery. But she is courageous and spirited, and though Ned, a handsome slave from the same South Carolina plantation, hopes to marry her some day, Corey longs for a better life. Then the Civil War tears Corey's family apart, but Corey escapes from slavery. Freedom isn't easy, however. Corey can't find her family, and Ned tells her he is running off to fight. Corey has no one left she can trust, so she heads north to Philadelphia. Here she finds a new home and new friends. And she meets Penn Wilson, a dashing young man who captures her heart and introduces her to a new, free world. But when Ned asks Corey to go West with him, the choices freedom brings seem harder than ever. Will Corey join Ned? Or will she return to the South to help her people - alongside Penn?

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Simplistic, and a bit didactic, but there's plenty of action and historical drama. Corey has truly extraordinary good fortune and drive, which carry her out of slavery to a Quaker school in Philadelphia. Heavy on coincidence for plot, with characters thinly drawn and the message firmly stated every few pages, this still involves readers because of the heroic struggle and admirable characters.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0590403958
• ISBN 13: 9780590403955
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184