Boundaries : how the Mason-Dixon line settled a family feud & divided a nation / Sally M. Walker.
Material type: TextPublication details: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2014.Edition: 1st edDescription: 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0763656127
- 0763673315
- 9780763656126
- 9780763673314
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 974.8802 W184 | Available | 33111007917988 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Mason-Dixon Line's history, replete with property disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country's history from its founding to today.
We live in a world of boundaries -- geographic, scientific, cultural, and religious. One of America's most enduring boundaries is the Mason-Dixon Line, most associated with the divide between the North and the South and the right to freedom for all people. Sibert Medal-winning author Sally M. Walker traces the tale of the Mason-Dixon Line through family feuds, brave exploration, scientific excellence, and the struggle to define a cohesive country. But above all, this remarkable story of surveying, marking, and respecting lines of demarcation will alert young history buffs to their guaranteed right and responsibility to explore, challenge, change, and defend the boundaries that define them.
"Reinforced trade edition"--Jacket flap.
A Junior Library Guild Selection.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Old-World prejudice, New-world dreams -- Maryland's shores -- Convictions and conscience -- The seed of a nation -- Whose land? -- Stars in their eyes -- Surveyors to the rescue -- Tackling the impossible -- The west line -- Continuing west -- Dangerous territory -- Freedom's boundary -- Time's boundary.
Traces the history of the Mason-Dixon Line as reflected by family feuds, exploration, scientific advancement and the cultural conflicts between America's northern and southern states.