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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
195 p.: ill.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the fictional diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.