In an expansion of his award-winning picture book Crossing Bok Chitto, acclaimed Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle offers a story that reminds readers that the strongest bridge between cultures is friendship. But as Lil Mo's family adjusts to their new life, danger waits just around the corner. There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississ. When trouble comes, the desperate runaways flee to. By morning, Lil Mo discovers he has entered a completely new world of tradition, community, and. Read 204 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Set before the Civil War and the Trail of Tears, and told in the lulling rhythms of oral history, Crossing Bok Chitto opens with a Mississippi Choctaw girl who strays across the Bok Chitto River into the world of Southern plantations, where she befriends a boy who is enslaved and his family. Crossing to freedom with his family seems impossible with slave catchers roaming, but then there is a miracle?a magical night where things become unseen and souls walk on water. But Martha Tom has the answer: cross the Bok Chitto and become free. When Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest of his family left behind. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries.
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