2007 YARP Reading List
Day of Tears
by Julius Lester
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Book Summary: Emma is the property of Pierce Butler and has taken care of his daughters, Sarah
and Frances, since their parents divorced. Emmawants to raise the girls to have good hearts, liketheir mother's, even as a rift in morals has ripped the Butler household apart. Sarah and her mother oppose the inhumanity of slavery, while Frances and her father believe in the Southern way of life and treatment of blacks.
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