Synopsis

Run Away Home

By Yani Hayati (Librarian of DiarpusK ab.Sukabumi)

Author              : Patricia C.McKissack

Publisher          
: Scholastic

Place
and year  : New York 1997

Collation           : xiii, pages 159: 19 cm.

     It’s 1888 in Alabama, and Sarah jane has
witnessed an escape. An Apache boy has jumped off a train headed for an Indian
reservation and a life he doesn’t want.

    Sarah Jane he’ll run far away. After all,
people deserve to be free, But instead, she finds him hiding in her barn, dying
of swamp fever. Sarah Jane and her mother work hard to nurse the boy back to
life. And Sarah jane realize they’ll have to turn him over to the authorities. But
hoiw can a family send a boy away who just wants his freedom a boy who has run
away home.

      This book is a fiction based on the
information the author gathered and blending of two cultures. She have not been
able to find in fact then she filled with her imagination.

The
storyline is clear and easy to understand, this novel uses a narrative language
style with simple and easy-to-understand.