Wyeth, Sharon Dennis.

Once on this river / [by] Sharon Dennis Wyeth. - New York : Knopf, 1998. - 153 p. ; 20 cm.

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While on a trip with her mother from Madagascar to New York in 1760, eleven-year-old Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her "other" mother.

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African Americans--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

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