Amos Fortune, Free Man

Author:Elizabeth Yates

Paperback: 192 pages

Age Range: 9 - 12 years

Publisher: Puffin; Reprint edition (1 May 1989)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0140341587

ISBN-13: 978-0140341584

Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.3 x 19.7 cm

内容简介

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

作者简介

Elizabeth Yates (1905 2001), prolific American author, won the 1951 Newbery Medal for her novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. She also received a Newbery Honor in 1944 for Mountain Born. Nora Unwin (1907 1982) illustrated more than one hundred books for children.