New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Brand new, never read. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, later printing. Hardcover: new. Dust jacket: new. Personally signed by the author to the full title page. Not a tip in. Not a bookplate. Signed and dated by the author to the full title page! "Keep Reading! 2023" Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for years of worry free reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2019 A young slave girl witnesses the heartbreak and hopefulness of her family and their plantation community when her brother escapes for freedom in this brilliantly conceived picture book by Coretta Scott King Award winner James E. Ransome. Every single morning, the overseer of the plantation rings the bell. Daddy gathers wood. Mama cooks. Ben and the other slaves go out to work. Each day is the same. Full of grueling work and sweltering heat. Every day, except one, when the bell rings and Ben is nowhere to be found. Because Ben ran. Yet, despite their fear and sadness, his family remains hopeful that maybe, just maybe, he made it North. That he is free. An ode to hope and a powerful tribute to the courage of those who ran for freedom, The Bell Rang is a stunning reminder that our past can never be forgotten.

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Bookseller: Books On The Boulevard (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 599
Title: The Bell Rang ~ SIGNED
Author: Ransome, James E
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New
Jacket Condition: New
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Hardcover Signed
ISBN 10: 1442421134
ISBN 13: 9781442421134
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2019
Keywords: 19th Century; African-American; Brothers and sisters; Family; Fiction; Fugitive slaves; General; Historical; Juvenile Fiction; People & Places; Slavery; United States, signed, collectible, autographed, coretta scott king award winner

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