Digging into the past is bound to shake up the present

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* Readers with a passion for memoirs and stories that illustrate the immigrant experience

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One Big Open Sky T Z Layton Digging into the past isThree women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them freeor cost them everything they havein this intergenerational verse novel that explores the history of the Black homesteader movement. 1879, Mississippi. Young dreamer Lettie may have her head in the stars, but her body is on a covered wagon heading westward. Her father, Thomas, promises that Nebraska will be everything the family needs: an opportunity to claim the independence