Award Name Cybils Award category Fiction Picture Book Description Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesn\'t live in the great house.
Each night Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their mast.
She\'s got to listen.
Ella May still has important work to do.
But her day isn\'t done, not yet.
And it\'s sunset when she comes home.
It\'s dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton.
She is a slave.
Award Name Cybils Award category Fiction Picture Book Description Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesn\'t live in the great house