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  • Winner
  • of
  • a
  • Newbery
  • Honor!Soonie's
  • great-grandma
  • was
  • just
  • seven
  • years
  • old
  • when
  • she
  • was
  • sold
  • to
  • a
  • big
  • plantation
  • without
  • her
  • ma
  • and
  • pa,
  • and
  • with
  • only
  • some
  • fabric
  • and
  • needles
  • to
  • call
  • her
  • own.
  • She
  • pieced
  • together
  • bright
  • patches
  • with
  • names
  • like
  • North
  • Star
  • and
  • Crossroads,
  • patches
  • with
  • secret
  • meanings
  • made
  • into
  • quilts
  • called
  • Show
  • Ways
  • --
  • maps
  • for
  • slaves
  • to
  • follow
  • to
  • freedom.
  • When
  • she
  • grew
  • up
  • and
  • had
  • a
  • little
  • girl,
  • she
  • passed
  • on
  • this
  • knowledge.
  • And
  • generations
  • later,
  • Soonie
  • --
  • who
  • was
  • born
  • free
  • --
  • taught
  • her
  • own
  • daughter
  • how
  • to
  • sew
  • beautiful
  • quilts
  • to
  • be
  • sold
  • at
  • market
  • and
  • how
  • to
  • read.From
  • slavery
  • to
  • freedom,
  • through
  • segregation,
  • freedom
  • marches
  • and
  • the
  • fight
  • for
  • literacy,
  • the
  • tradition
  • they
  • called
  • Show
  • Way
  • has
  • been
  • passed
  • down
  • by
  • the
  • women
  • in
  • Jacqueline
  • Woodson's
  • family
  • as
  • a
  • way
  • to
  • remember
  • the
  • past
  • and
  • celebrate
  • the
  • possibilities
  • of
  • the
  • future.
  • Beautifully
  • rendered
  • in
  • Hudson
  • Talbott's
  • luminous
  • art,
  • this
  • moving,
  • lyrical
  • account
  • pays
  • tribute
  • to
  • women
  • whose
  • strength
  • and
  • knowledge
  • illuminate
  • their
  • daughters' lives.
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