| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
418 pages : map ; 21 cm |
| Audience |
Ages 10-14 Little, Brown and Company. |
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Grades: 5-9. |
| Awards |
YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2023. |
| Summary |
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
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11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not just an ordinary boy so he's hoping to finally prove himself in front of Ama and his friends in a swimming contest against his older, stronger cousin. But before this can take place, a festival comes to the villages of Upper and Lower Kwanta and Kofi's brother is chosen to represent Upper Kwanta in the wrestling contest. Encircled by cheering spectators and sounding drums, the two wrestlers from different villages kneel, ready to fight. You are only fine, until you are not. The match is over before it has barely begun, when the unthinkable--a sudden death--occurs... The river does not care how grown you are. As his world turns upside down, Kofi soon ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. |
| Subject |
Novels in verse.
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Black people -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Local Subject |
Traffickers in enslaved persons -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject |
Slave trade -- Fiction.
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| Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Novels in verse.
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| Subject |
JUVENILE FICTION / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels in verse. (OCoLC)fst01921724
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| Subject |
Black people. (OCoLC)fst00833880
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| Genre/Form |
Novels in verse.
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| Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject |
United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
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African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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United States -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Subject |
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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United States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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| Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject |
Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
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Slave traders -- Juvenile fiction.
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United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Slave trade -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Local Subject |
Traffickers in enslaved persons -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject |
African Americans -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Subject |
Slave traders (OCoLC)fst01120410
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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| Subject |
Slave trade -- Juvenile fiction.
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Slave traders -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Subject |
Slavery -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| ISBN |
9780316441865 hardcover |
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0316441864 hardcover |
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9780316442060 electronic book |
