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My Water Path (Paperback)
David M. F. Powers; Illustrated by Zefanya Maega; Timothy Joseph
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Discovery Miles 4 100
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Mississippi, the late 1950s. After the death of his father,
eleven-year-old Jory Sheppard runs away from an unwanted life in
foster care. Trying to make it on his own, he is caught in a
violent storm on the Mississippi River, but when he is rescued from
the raging waters by an old black man named Moses, it becomes the
event that will change his life. Taken into Moses' family as one of
their own, Jory is introduced to a world so familiar and yet so
very different from the one he once knew. As he learns and grows
under the benevolent care of his new family, he struggles to make
sense of the society in which he lives-a society that would spit on
a man such as Moses simply because his skin is black, and make
every effort to rip Jory from the family he loves. Quickly
entrenched in a struggle that is much bigger than himself, Jory
must learn the difference between what feels necessary and what is
right, what pity is, and what hate is. If he wants to fight the
injustice and uncertainty that surrounds him, he must learn what it
really means to stand up for what he believes in.
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