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Cotton fields, dusty roads, and the hot Texas sun. One little girl's world looked the same as it always did when she went to sleep. But she wakes to find that everything is all different now.

Coretta Scott King Award winners Angela Johnson and E. B. Lewis tell the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last slaves in the South.

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Angela Johnson

Angela Johnson

1961 -
American
Angela Johnson is the author of the Coretta Scott King Honor Book When I Am Old with You, as well as I Dream of Trains, illustrated by Beth Peck. He... See more
E. B. Lewis

E. B. Lewis

1956 -
American
E.B. Lewis is a fine artist and illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for young readers.  His books for Simon & Schuster inlcu... See more

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