Author : Elizabeth Yates
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 1989-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0140341587
A Newbery Medal Winner When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dinity and courage. For 45 years, Amos worked as a slave and dreamed of freedom. And, at age 60, he finally began to see those dreams come true. "The moving story of a life dedicated to the fight for freedom."—Booklist
Author : Laura Adams Armer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0486492885
Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.
Author : Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN :
Newbery Awards.
Author : Elizabeth Yates
Publisher : Walker Childrens
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock.
Author : Elizabeth 1905-2001 Yates
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781015128477
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Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698119371
Newbery Honor-winning author, Jean Fritz, takes us on a journey to the Underground Railroad. Brady has never been trusted with secrets, until now. When he discovers an Underground Railroad station near his family's farm, he is forced to make his own decision about the slavery controversy. Whatever his decision may be, he knows that this is one secret that must be kept. "A perceptive, satisfying story." --Booklist" "Mrs. Fritz has written an exciting, yet tender, chronicle of the boy, his home, and his times." --Kirkus Reviews
Author : G a Henty
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2021-02-13
Category :
ISBN :
The hero is a young thane who wins the favor of Earl Harold and becomes one of his retinue. When Harold becomes King of England Wulf assists in the Welsh wars, and takes part against the Norsemen at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. When William of Normandy invades England, Wulf is with the English host at Hastings, and stands by his King to the last in the mighty struggle. Altogether this is a noble tale. Wulf himself is a rare example of Saxon vigor, and the spacious background of stormfulHistorylends itself admirably to heroicRomance-General-General.
Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152018921
Banneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.
Author : Elizabeth Yates
Publisher : Journeyforth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780890847541
Describes the search for and adventures of a young girl lost in a New Hampshire forest in the pioneer days. Based on a true incident.
Author : Elizabeth Yates
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780343287603
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