went unheard by much of the world. The novel, Nightjohn is about a girl named Sarny who is a slave on the Waller's plantation, who learns to read and write from a new hand that comes to work, named John. Although historical fiction, Gary Paulsen’s novel Nightjohn is considered by many not to be factually correct because it overemphasizes certain aspects of the story, such as the implausible events that take place, but nevertheless they are incorrect, Gary Paulsen describes many incidents in his story…
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