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Kindred / Octavia E. Butler.
Dana, a Black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385150590
- ISBN: 9780807083109
- ISBN: 0807083100
- ISBN: 0385150598
- ISBN: 9780807006924
- Physical Description: 287 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Twenty-fifth anniverary edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2003]
- Copyright: ©2003
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue -- Reader's guide: Critical essay -- Discussion questions. |
| Target Audience Note: | 580L Lexile Decoding demand: 97 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 88 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 4 14 73467. |
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| Subject: | African American women > Fiction. Slaveholders > Fiction. Slavery > Fiction. Enslaved persons > Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction. Southern States > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Time-travel fiction. Science fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cass County Library-Garden City | F BUT 2004 (Text) | 0002205593664 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Harrisonville | F BUT 2004 (Text) | 0002205593656 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | F BUT 2004 (Text) | 0002205593649 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Pleasant Hill | F BUT 2004 (Text) | 0002205593631 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 10/10/2023 |
