Also coming from author Alvin F. Oickle You Can't Own People How many times do we pass something in our daily lives without stopping to think? With a glut of monuments, and a decreasing knowledge of history, we often walk or drive past historical monuments without stopping to think about the importance of marker or what that marker stands for. Jimmy was such a person. Biking past Evergreen Cemetery while running an errand for his mom, he notices someone familiar by the monument -- Mrs. Johnson, his reading teacher from school. So Jimmy stops to see -- and ask -- what Mrs. Johnson is doing. And in stopping he finally sees not only the monument but also the man it commemorates -- Captain Jonathan Walker, the man with the branded hand. And as Mrs. Johnson explains about this country's "peculiar institution" of slavery, Jimmy utters the title's words: "You Can't Own People!" This book is written for children ages 9 through 12 and uses a first-person narrative from a peer of that age group. The author, Alvin Oickle, is no novice to the Walker saga. He has written the exhaustive and acclaimed Jonathan Walker: The Man With the Branded Hand which adeptly covers the life of Walker. E-Mail the agent, John L. Hoh, Jr., at H2O Literary Agency.

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