My Home is Over Jordan by Sandra Forrester

My Home Is over Jordan: Sequel to Sound the JubileeSandra Forrester. She has a master’s degree in library and information studies and lives in Alabama. Chinese The American House Carpenter a Treatise on the Art of Building Comprising. She is also the author of the Beatrice Bailey series. Forrester assumes a knowledge of the characters and their relationships, and jumps right into the story without much explanation still, readers of the earlier book will appreciate the author's willingness to allow for moral complexity: While some of the characters are either all good or all bad, neither blacks nor whites as a group are, and in the rebuilding of the South, there is blame and praise enough to go around. Sandra Forrester is the author of several historical fiction novels, including Wheel of the Moon, My Home Is over Jordan, Sound the Jubilee, and Dust from Old Bones.

All Maddie wants is to continue her education, but she is tied down by Tibby, a mixed-race child whom she finds running wild in the woods, and to whom she becomes a sort of mother. MY HOME IS OVER JORDAN by Sandra Forrester Age Range: 10 - 14 BUY NOW FROM AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: KIRKUS REVIEW u0007 A sequel to Sound the Jubilee (1995, not reviewed) that does not stand on its own, but which will be welcomed by readers of the first book. But the small town of Willoughby, North Carolina, where they settle, is not exactly welcoming, and some of the young black men seem as determined to stir up trouble as the belligerent whites are. With the Civil War over, Maddie Henry and her family are free and hope to work their own land. Sandra Forrester My Home Is over Jordan: Sequel to 'Sound the Jubilee' Hardcover Octoby Sandra Forrester (Author) 2 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 5.99 12 Used from 4.84 2 New from 4.95 1 Collectible from 10.00 Paperback 2.41 8 Used from 2. A sequel to Sound the Jubilee (1995, not reviewed) that does not stand on its own, but which will be welcomed by readers of the first book.

My Home is Over Jordan by Sandra Forrester