Limited pictures. Fiction. Great for grades 3-5. Tells about frienship and learnimg. Helps with reading fluency.

Summary:
A part of the American Girl series, this book is about Addy, a former slave who is given the opportunity to go to school. She learns school lessons but also life lessons about the worth of people and what it means to be a friend.

Review:
The entire American Girl series are worth every little person on the planet reading. A little bit history and a little bit life lessons, this book really had my interest from the start. Anything about slavery and injustice pangs at my heart but told through the eyes of a little girl it all hits home. Great book, wonderful series. ( )

A former slave Addy Walker a now a free girl in Philadelphia begins school, she can't read write of do anything a girl on nine should be able to do. She has one friend another former slave. Her mother is working as a seamstress that does not know how to read and she trying to make a way to break it to her employer. ( )

A sweet little story about what it means to be a friend...and how not to hate. Set during the Civil War in Philadelphia, about an escaped slave girl.
--Catherine ( )

When Addy arrives in Philadelphia, she makes a new friend, Sarah, who helps her adjust to everything. When she begins school, however, Harriet is made her desk partner. Harriet is intelligent and wealthy, and Addy wants to be just like her, but when she turns her back on Sarah to be friends with Harriet, she discovers that Harriet didn’t really want to be her friend. Addy wins the spelling bee and learns an important lesson about who her friend is- Sarah. ( )