Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack

Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack
Schwartz and Wade
2011
Unpaged



In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.

1 comment:

  1. Stunning illustrations and powerful folk story elements create a haunting link between Africa and the New World. Especially moving after reading Jefferson's Sons and Freedom Stone.

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