Never forgotten / by Patricia C. McKissack ; artwork by Leo & Diane Dillon.
2011
PZ7.5.M45 Ne 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Never forgotten / by Patricia C. McKissack ; artwork by Leo & Diane Dillon.
Author
McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.
ISBN
9780375843846
0375843841
9780375944536 (glb)
0375944532 (glb)
0375843841
9780375944536 (glb)
0375944532 (glb)
Publication Details
New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Call Number
PZ7.5.M45 Ne 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
[Fic]
Summary
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.
Note
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket flap.
"Manufactured in China"--Title page verso.
"Manufactured in China"--Title page verso.
Audience
710L Lexile
Sentence length: 3 (medium) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) lexile
Sentence length: 3 (medium) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) lexile
Awards
Coretta Scott King Honor, Author, 2012.
ALA children's award.
ALA children's award.
Added Author
Dillon, Leo.
Dillon, Diane.
Dillon, Diane.
Added Corporate Author
Schwartz & Wade Books.
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Table of Contents
The Griot's prelude
Dinga, the blacksmith
A father's journey begins
The mother elements
The presentation
The naming
Musafa
Beware
Musafa becomes an apprentice
Gone
The search
Earth's answer
Fire flares
Fire's ordeal
Water's pursuit
Water's tale
Wind's chance
Wind's saga
Recognition
The celebration
Comes the silence
Author's note.
Dinga, the blacksmith
A father's journey begins
The mother elements
The presentation
The naming
Musafa
Beware
Musafa becomes an apprentice
Gone
The search
Earth's answer
Fire flares
Fire's ordeal
Water's pursuit
Water's tale
Wind's chance
Wind's saga
Recognition
The celebration
Comes the silence
Author's note.