The World Doesn't Require You Ages 8 and up She Would Be King

She Would Be King

In this New York Times bestselling novel

Teachers of vision know that democratic education can never be confined to a classroom

defy your family

and New Orleans

The World Doesn't Require You Ages 8 and up She Would Be KingEstablished by the leaders of the countrys only successful slave revolt in the mid nineteenth century, Cross River still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. In lyrical prose and singular dialect, a saga beats forward that echoes the fables carried down for generationslike the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet deaths. Among its residentswildly spanning decades, perspectives, and