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The Door at the Crossroads

The Door at the Crossroads

Zetta Elliott

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One summer night, Genna Colon makes a fateful wish that sends her and her boyfriend Judah spiraling through time. They land hours apart in the city of Brooklyn--and in the middle of the Civil War. Genna is taken to the free Black community of Weeksville, but Judah suffers a harsher fate and is sent to the South as a slave. Judah miraculously makes his way back to Genna, but the New York City Draft Riots tear them apart once more. When Genna unexpectedly returns to her life in contemporary Brooklyn, she vows to fulfill the mandate of sankofa: "go back and fetch it." But how will she summon the power she needs to open the door that leads back to Judah?

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OL Work ID
OL21495614W

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FamiliesFictionTeenage girlsRacismHistoryTime travelMan-woman relationshipsSlavesCivil WarFamillesRomans, nouvellesAdolescentesRacismeHistoireVoyages dans le tempsAmerican Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01351658

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