Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after…

Name: Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after Dark
Author: Joel Chandler Harris

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CEFR level: B2
Length: 17 chapters
Format: The complete book

About this book

In 1863 Georgia, trusted carriage-driver Daddy Jake shocks a plantation by running away after a fierce clash with a new overseer. Amid wartime turmoil and shifting power, secrets and tensions simmer on the Gaston estate in these gripping historical tales.

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