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Author Yates, Elizabeth, 1905-2001, author.

Title Amos Fortune, free man / Elizabeth Yates ; illustrated by Nora S. Unwin.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Puffin Books, 1989.
©1950
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Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 920 FOR c.3  Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Children's Department  JB FORTUNE YAT    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J-B FORTUNE, AMOS    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department  JUV. 974.4 F745YA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Newbery Award Books  JB FORTUNE AMOS    Check Shelf
Edition Puffin Books edition.
Description 181 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
age Age: Preteens lcdgt
edu Educational level: Middle school students lcdgt
edu Educational level: School children lcdgt
Series Puffin Newbery library
Puffin Newbery library.
Note Reprint. Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1950.
"First published in the United States of America by E. P. Dutton, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1950."
Audience 1090L Lexile
Study Program Accelerated Reader MG 6.5 5.0.
Summary The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
Contents Africa 1725 -- Middle passage -- Boston 1725-1740 -- Woburn 1740-1779 -- Journey to Keene 1779 -- Arrival at Jaffrey -- Hard work fills the iron kettle 1781-1789 -- Amos on the mountain -- Auctioned for freedom -- Evergreen years 1794-1801.
Awards Newbery Medal, 1951
Subject Fortune, Amos, 1709 or 1710-1801 -- Juvenile literature.
Enslaved persons -- Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Enslaved persons.
Massachusetts.
African Americans -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Subject Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
Fortune, Amos, 1709 or 1710-1801 (OCoLC)fst01819005
Fortune, Amos, 1709 or 1710-1801.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Genre/Form Literature.
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author Unwin, Nora S. (Nora Spicer), 1907-1982, illustrator.
ISBN 9780140341584
0140341587
9781439514894 (library binding)
1439514895 (library binding)
083352977X
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