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The Slave Dancer Reprint Edition
Contributor(s): Fox, Paula (Author)

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ISBN: 1416971394     ISBN-13: 9781416971399
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2008
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Annotation: In this powerful historical novel a thirteen-year-old boy is kidnapped and brought aboard a slave ship, where he is forced to play music that will entice the slaves to exercise.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Classics
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 19th Century
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 73-80642
Age Level: 11-14
Grade Level: 6-9
Lexile Measure: 910(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.26" W x 7.63" L (0.29 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1800-1850
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Catalog Heading - Classics
- Curriculum Strand - Language Arts
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 82
Reading Level: 6.0   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
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Publisher Description:
In this iconic, wrenching Newbery Medal winning book, a young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship.

Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown over his head and he's knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, Jessie finds himself aboard a slave ship, bound for Africa. There, the Moonlight picks up ninety-eight black prisoners, and the men, women, and children, chained hand and foot, are methodically crammed into the ship's hold. Jessie's job is to provide music for the slaves to dance to on the ship's deck--not for amusement but for exercise, as a way to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable.

Over the course of the long voyage, Jessie grows more and more sickened by the greed of the sailors and the cruelty with which the slaves are treated. But it's one final horror, when the Moonlight nears her destination, that will change Jessie forever.

Set during the middle of the nineteenth century, when the illegal slave trade was at its height, The Slave Dancer not only tells a vivid and shocking story of adventure and survival but depicts the brutality of slavery with unflinching historical accuracy.

 
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