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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gibney, Shannon, author.     Subjects     Families -- Liberia -- Juvenile fiction.     Families -- Minnesota -- Juvenile fiction.     Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.     Refugees -- Juvenile fiction.     Liberian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.     African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.     Americans -- Liberia -- Juvenile fiction.     Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Juvenile fiction.     Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Juvenile fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gibney, Shannon, author.       by title:      Dream country / Shan...         MARC Display

Dream country / Shannon Gibney. by Gibney, Shannon, author. New York, NY : Dutton, [2018] Subjects Families -- Liberia -- Juvenile fiction.   Families -- Minnesota -- Juvenile fiction.   Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.   Refugees -- Juvenile fiction.   Liberian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.   African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.   Americans -- Liberia -- Juvenile fiction.   Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Juvenile fiction.   Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Juvenile fiction. ISBN:  9780735231672 (hardback) : 0735231672 (hardback) Description:  335 pages ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel from a family tree twisted to its breaking point by slavery and colonialism but ultimately held together by hope and determination"-- 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   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   McCully-Moiliili Public Library YA -- Fiction Gibney Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library YA -- Fiction Gibney Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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