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Author Mitchell, Elizabeth, 1954-

Title Journey to the bottomless pit : the story of Stephen Bishop & Mammoth Cave / Elizabeth Mitchell ; illustrations by Kelynn Alder.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J MITCHELL    In Transit
Description ix, 99 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary In 1938, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms.
Contents New guide -- Church and the steamboat -- First discovery -- Across the bottomless pit -- New master -- Under crevice pit -- Underground hospital -- Stephen draws a map -- Free at last? -- Legacy of Stephen Bishop.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 3.0 83682.
Subject Mammoth Cave (Ky.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Mammoth Cave (Ky.) -- Fiction.
Caves -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Kentucky -- History -- 1865- -- Fiction.
Added Author Alder, Kelynn, illustrator.
ISBN 0670059080 hardcover
Standard No. 9780670059089
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