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Thee, Hannah!

Marguerite de Angeli

194085 pagesabout 1–2 hours
1940
first published
  • 1940Junior Literary Guild · 85 pages · ENG
  • 1940Doubleday, Doran & company inc. · 88 pages · ENG
  • 1940Doubleday · 90 pages · ENG
  • 2000Herald Press · 99 pages · ENGISBN 9780836191066
  • 1970Doubleday Books for Young Readers · 98 pages · ENGISBN 9780385075251

Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave.

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Written forMiddle grade

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ThemesJustice

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  • Racismmoderateunreviewed
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