Helpful Score: 4
Story of an African prince, sold as a slave that never loses his dignity and dreams of freedom
Helpful Score: 3
Originally published in 1950, this Newbery Award winner embodies the quiet method of changing the world. Amos Fortune lived a hard life, but his calmness and solid beliefs affected everyone he came in contact with. His life story teaches us lessons that many people today seem to have forgotten; lessons of patience and forgiveness. And that a little hard work can go a long way toward making your life, and the lives of those around you that much richer :o)
Helpful Score: 1
Moving story.
Helpful Score: 1
This book is used in Sonlight 7 (now Core 100)
Helpful Score: 1
An excellent biography for older elementary students that won the John Newbery medal.
Different cover but same book. The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
