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Title: Cane Warriors
Condition: New
Author: Alex Wheatle
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1839131128
EAN: 9781839131127
ISBN: 9781839131127
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd
Genre: Children's Reference
Topic: Society & Culture, Children's Books
Release Date: 07/10/2021
Description: Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the UKLA Book AwardWinner of the Young Quills Historical Fiction Award Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Diverse Book Award and Iris AwardLonglisted for the YA Jhalak Prize 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.
Language: English
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 13mm
Item Weight: 170g
Release Year: 2021

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