by Ann Rinaldi · Scholastic · tapa dura · ISBN 9780590543187
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«Mine Eyes Have Seen» is Ann Rinaldi's historical novel, published by Scholastic in hardback (288 pages, in English).
Annie is fifteen and spends the summer of 1859 on a Maryland farm with her father, the abolitionist John Brown. There, Brown secretly prepares his provisional army to attack the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Through Annie's eyes, the novel portrays the complicated relationship between them and the events that preceded an episode considered a catalyst of the American Civil War.
Recommended for young readers and for those who enjoy historical fiction set in the years before the US Civil War.
Ann Rinaldi was an American journalist and young adult fiction author. She was best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, Numbering All The Bones and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. She wrote more than forty novels(54 to be exact), eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one of the best young adult novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She also wrote for the Dear America series.
