Kindred coming of age • NCTE Notable Children's Books

• NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts

”—Kirkus (starred review)

Lexile level:  980L

One Hen shows what happens when a little help makes a big difference

And me wanting nothing else but to run crying into my own mom's room and have her do the whole thing

Kindred coming of age • NCTE Notable Children's BooksDana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or