# Nightjohn

**Author:** Gary Paulsen
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1993
**Page count:** 92
**Genre:** Historical Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780440820727`
**ISBN-10:** `0440820723`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/nightjohn
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Summary: Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

## Themes

- slavery
- manfred mann
- freundschaft
- sklave

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1997 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1997 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1997 winner (Middle Grade)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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