Load in Nine Times: Poems -- Frank X. Walker, Hardcover Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Studs Terkel interviewed the author

Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history

beside a child's crooked drawing of a red flower

is carefully crafted using basic language

"--School Library Connection "A highly descriptive story which absorbs the audience into its world

ISBN: 9781250886088

Load in Nine Times: Poems -- Frank X. Walker, Hardcover Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction Studs Terkel interviewed the authorFor decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers including his own ancestors who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation. Moving chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reconstruction, Walker braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops with their family members, as