The Pass-Key - Softcover

Rebecca Newth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980125715 ISBN 13: 9780980125719

Publisher: Will Hall Books. DeBlack Award for Young Readers in Arkansas History 2011, 2010

Synopsis

What happened in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1862? A twenty-first century eleven year-old boy is given the chance to find out when he visits a kindly woman who asks him to choose a skeleton key for his own. The key he chooses sends him all over the house and outbuildings to find the door it opens. When he does so, he discovers he is back in the year 1862 where he finds a slave boy of his own age hiding in a shed on the property. After an adventure in town amid the disruption of war where soldiers are seen and fires are smoking and both sides - Union and Confederate - are awaiting a conflict, the boys get into trouble of a kind very different from that which a twenty-first century boy might find. How this forges a friendship and whether the slave boy resolves his problems and his friend returns to the present is the suspense of this story.

About this title

About the Author

Rebecca Newth, native of Michigan, resident of Fayetteville, Arkansas, is a teacher and writer. She has published six books of poetry, a memoir, and three other children's books. This is her first chapter book and work of historical fiction for older children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Will Hall Books. DeBlack Award for Young Readers in Arkansas History 2011
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0980125715
• ISBN 13: 9780980125719
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: John L Newman
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 54