Nightjohn

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Nightjohn is a book for young adults, written by Gary Paulsen. It was first published in 1993, it was made into a movie that aired on the Disney Channel in 1996. It is set at a plantation in the Southern United States in the 1850s. The narrator and protagonist of the story is a young African-American slave named Sarny, who is taught to read and write by another slave, Nightjohn. The two friends soon learn that their literacy makes them independent, illiteracy being one of the tools used to keep slaves in their oppressed state.sexy, so sexy

Works of Gary Paulsen

Brian series: Hatchet • Brian's Return • Brian's Winter • The River • Brian's Hunt
Tucket series: Mr. Tucket • Call Me Francis Tucket • Tucket's Ride • Tucket's Gold • Tucket's Home • Tucket's Travels
World of Adventure Series: Captive! • Curse of the Ruins • Danger on Midnight River • Escape from Fire Mountain
historical novels: The Quilt • Alida's Song • Soldier's Heart • Nightjohn • Sarny
comical books:The Amazing Life of Birds The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech • Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day • The Glass Cafe: Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous • The Boy Who Owned the School • The Schernoff Discoveries • Harris and Me
other: Canoe Days • The Beet Fields • The White Fox Chronicles • The Transall Saga • The Rifle •The Tent • Dogteam • The Car • A Christmas Sonata • The Monument •The Haymeadow • Woodsong • The Night the White Deer Died • Canyons • The Winter Room •The Voyage of the Frog • The Island • The Crossing
non-fiction:How Angel Petersen Got His Name • Caught by the Sea • Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books • Father Water, Mother Woods • My Life in Dog Years • Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers