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cup of tea with that book, please
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 284 pages
Published: April 24, 2024
Publisher: Resource Publications
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis:
Kidnapped along with her brother Ledu (Olaudah Equiano) at the tender age of eleven, Olu is dragged across Nigeria, deposited on a slave ship for the Middle Passage, and dropped on a rice plantation in Charles Town, South Carolina in 1753. During the Revolutionary War she attempts to escape. Will she succeed? Will she reunite with any of her family members?
Joanna Vassa (daughter of Equiano) is introduced to William Wilberforce and the abolition movement when s ..read more
cup of tea with that book, please
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cup of tea with that book, please
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Welcome to What I’ve Been Reading Lately, a feature where I’ll be giving short reviews of what I’m currently reading:
The Boy Lost In The Maze by Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Kate Milner
Theo, a seventeen-year-old London schoolboy with a single mother, is desperate to track down the father who left them, whom he scarcely remembers. At school he discovers Greek mythology and the ancient story of Theseus, a fatherless son driven on a similar search. As Theo focuses on Theseus in a series of poems he composes, it becomes clear the two journeys echo each other in uncanny ways. Theseus must co ..read more