Author/Illustrator: Ashley Bryan
Genre: Historical Fiction
Awards: None
Grade Level: 3rd-5th
This book is about 11 slaves from the 1800s. In the beginning you will see all eleven slaves and the price that they can be bought for. Throughout the book will be each slaves story. They will tell what their job is and on the following page what they dream to be/have one day. The author of this book was given documents of slaves and she chose eleven of the slaves and made them come to life with what she thought they were like.
This book has a lot of words and paragraphs and is structured for upper elementary students. I would use this book in my classroom when talking about slavery. I could use it to have students research famous slaves and create there own article like in this book.
Ashley Bryan, the author/illustrator, is a man. You can't just always go by the first name.
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