02241cam a2200409 i 4500 1913712606 TxAuBib 20250212120000.0 240920s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024039654 9780316299336 0316299332 TxAuBib rda Rhodes, Jewell Parker, author. Will's race for home / by Jewell Parker Rhodes ; illustrations by Olga and Aleksey Ivanov. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. 196 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land they don’t get to own. So when Will and his father hear about an upcoming land rush, they set out on a journey from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others to the place where land is free—if they can get to it fast enough. But the journey isn’t easy—the terrain is rough, the bandits are brutal, and every interaction carries a heavy undercurrent of danger. And then there’s the stranger they encounter and a mysterious soldier named Caesar, whose Union emblem brings more attention—and more trouble—than any of them need. All three are propelled by the promise of something long denied to freedom, land ownership, and a place to call home—but is a strong will enough to get them there?" --goodreads. 20250212. Fathers and sons Juvenile fiction. Frontier and pioneer life Juvenile fiction. African Americans Juvenile fiction. Oklahoma History Land Rush, 1889 Juvenile fiction. Western fiction. Historical fiction. Young adult fiction. Ivanov, O, illustrator., (Olga.) Ivanov, A, illustrator., (Aleksey.) TXKPL