Cane Warriors [electronic resource]
Wheatle, Alex2020
eBook
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, the Young Quills Historical Fiction Award and the Iris Award Longlisted for the YA Jhalak Prize and the Diverse Book Award Nobody free till everybody free. Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is ticking, and the day of the uprising approaches . . . Irresistible, gripping and unforgettable, Cane Warriors follows the true story of Tacky's War in Jamaica, 1760.
Main title:
Cane Warriors [electronic resource] / Alex Wheatle
Author:
Wheatle, Alex, Author
Work:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Andersen Press Ltd, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
Reading grade level: 3
Biography/History:
Alex Wheatle is the author of several acclaimed novels, many of them inspired by experiences from his childhood. He was born in Brixton to Jamaican parents, and spent most of his childhood in a Surrey children's home. Following a short stint in prison following the Brixton uprising of 1981, he wrote poems and lyrics and became known as the Brixtonbard. Alex has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, and was awarded an MBE for services to literature in 2008.
ISBN:
9781787612006
Language:
English
BRN:
381363