Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw tale of friendship and freedom, by Tim Tingle and Jeanne Rorex Bridges, ill. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2008.

ISBN: 978-1933693200

Annotation: A respectful retelling of a Choctaw legend about a young girl who helps an enslaved family escape from a plantation.

Illustrations: acrylic

Curricular Use: 5^th-7^th grades; History/Social Studies

4Q/4P

Book trailer URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFp8iO8bMQs

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Tingle, T. (2006). Crossing Bok Chitto: a Choctaw tale of friendship & freedom (J.R. Bridges, Illus.). El Paso, Texas: Cinco Puntos Press. ISBN 0938317776 4Q/3P

Summary: The Bok Chitto river was the dividing line between freedom and slavery. Those slaves who crossed its waters found the promised land. This is the story of a Choctaw girl and an enslaved boy, and how they led his family to freedom.

Media: Acrylics.

Curricular connections: Grades 5-8. History, social studies: slavery, Native American tribes of the South, spirituals.

KEM 4/29/08