Product Details
Atheneum, January 2008
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1416953485
ISBN-13: 9781416953487
Ages: 14 and up
Grades: 8 and up
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- ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee
- CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book
- Coretta Scott King Award (ALA)
- Eliot Rosewater HS Bk Awd (IN)
- Florida Teens Read Master List
- Gateway Readers Award Nominee (MO)
- Georgia Peach Book Award Master List
- Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Literature (Writing Conference, Inc.) (KS)
- Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Master List (KS)
- IRA Notable Books for a Global Society
- Nevada Young Reader's Award Nominee
- Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
- School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
- Sequoyah Children's Master List (OK)
- South Carolina Book Award Nominee
- Thumbs Up! Award Master List (MI)
- Virginia Readers’ Choice Award Master List
- Volunteer State Book Award Master List (TN)
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Description
Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder,
fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own -- hope.
Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful village, she could not have imagined everything could be taken away from her in an instant. But when slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family, Amari finds herself dragged away to a slave ship headed to the Carolinas, where she is bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a birthday present.
Survival seems all that Amari can hope for. But then an act of unimaginable cruelty provides her with an opportunity to escape, and with an indentured servant named Polly she flees to Fort Mose, Florida, in search of sanctuary at the Spanish colony. Can the illusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their arduous journey, fraught with hardship and danger?
"A searing work of historical fiction."
-- Booklist, starred review
"Action-packed, multifaceted, character-rich."
-- SLJ, starred review
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