When the war makes its way into the empty Worselands, she and D-39 find themselves thrown into an epic journey for survival and hope. But one day an incredible antique shows up at the farm: a D-39 robodog, "Real as a dog can be!" Klynt is overjoyed, but the good luck doesn't last. Real pet dogs are a thing of the past: after they were found to be carriers of a sickness the government ordered them all killed. Instead, Klynt spends most of her long summer days bored, or restoring artifacts in her Museum of Fond Memories. The war is going from bad to worse, but out in the sparsely populated Worselands, twelve-year-old Klynt Tovis doesn't see much of it. In the middle: everybody else, just trying to survive. On the other: President Vex's corrupt government. In a future United States, civil war is devastating a country on its last legs. A dystopic but heartwarming novel-in-verse perfect for fans of Pax by Sara Pennypacker. Klynt's days on her Papa's farm are all the same, even during wartime. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today.
At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.
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