Load in Nine Times: Poems -- Frank X. Walker, Hardcover Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction ISBN: 9781639108473

ISBN: 9781639108473

beside a child's crooked drawing of a red flower

If Nat finds the Snitcher

From the author and illustrator team behind the bestselling MEMOIRS books from Sleeping Bear Press

Load in Nine Times: Poems -- Frank X. Walker, Hardcover Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction ISBN: 9781639108473For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers including his own ancestors who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation. Moving chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reconstruction, Walker braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops with their family members, as