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One Big Open Sky
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Illustrator: Allira Tree, map
Ages: 12+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 978-0-8234-5016-9
Keywords: Historical Fiction-African Americans, Novels in Verse, Frontier and Pioneer Life, Wagon Trains, Westward Expansion, Homesteading
In 1879, Lettie and her Black family leave Mississippi seeking a better life in Nebraska, their arduous journey detailed in prose poetry and multiple voices. Author's note. Greyscale map.