Title : “THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR”
[
book 1 of DIES DREAR CHRONICLES ]
Copyright © 1968
by Virginia Hamilton
Copyright renewed
© 1996 by Virginia Hamilton
Cover design by
Debra Sfetsios
Cover illustration
copyright © 2006 by Leo & Dianne Dillon
Aladdin Paperbacks
(an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)
Printed in the
United States of America
First paperback edition
1970 ; reissued 1984
Aladdin Paperback
edition January 2006 | 250 p | ISBN
978-1-4169-1405-1
Rate : 4 of 5
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ALA Notable
Children’s Book
Edgar Allan Poe
Award Winner
Thomas Small going
into thirteen when his family moving from North Carolina to Ohio, leaving his
Great-grandmother Jeffers and others relative behind. Mr. Small wants his
family living in different environment, where no separation between black and
white people. He got a new job as an teacher, aside his likeness in history, he
also got a new house with long tragic history where the owner was an
abolitionist known as Dies Drear – part of the Underground Railroad. Thomas who
also fond of the story which his father told him, got excited when he learn
that more than one hundred thousand slaves who fled from the South to Canada
between 1810 – 1850, forty thousand of them had passed through Ohio.
