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Rent Follow the Drinking Gourd: An Underground Railroad Story (Nonfiction Picture Books: Night Sky Stories)
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Picture Window Books
Published: Aug 2012
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - General
Retail Price: $9.99
Ages: 07 - 09 Pages: 24
Synopsis
Follow the Drinking Gourd is an American folk song from the 1920s. Legend has it that a man called Peg Leg Joe taught slaves the song to help them escape to freedom, and they used the Big Dipper and the North Star to guide the way.