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MY NAME IS NOT ANGELICA

MY NAME IS NOT ANGELICA Cloth - 1989

by O'Dell, Scott

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  • Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. [viii], 130p. 1st printing. Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl enslaved in the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734. [WorldCat] (8-1/2"x5-3/4")
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  • Title MY NAME IS NOT ANGELICA
  • Author O'Dell, Scott
  • Binding Cloth
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 130
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Date 1989
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # H13526
  • ISBN 9780395510612 / 0395510619
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.59 x 5.92 x 0.7 in (21.82 x 15.04 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 07 to 10 years
  • Grade levels 2 - 5
  • Reading level 750
  • Library of Congress subjects Blacks - Fiction, Slave insurrections - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89001864
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

In this historical novel set in the Virgin Islands of 1733, Raisha escapes from her Dutch "owners" in time to witness the mass suicide of her fellow slaves, who prefer death to recapture.

From the publisher

Scott O’Dell (1898–1989), one of the most respected authors of historical fiction, received the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Medals, and the Hans Christian Andersen Author Medal, the highest international recognition for a body of work by an author of books for young readers. Some of his many books include The Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Road to Damietta, Sing Down the Moon, and The Black Pearl.

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"O'Dell, like a conjurer, weaves worlds out of words . . . [He] doesn't spare readers any of the grim realities of slavery; the details . . . are at times almost unbearably painful . . . The ending . . . is so powerful, so searing, it will leave readers stunned." Publishers Weekly

About the author

Scott O'Dell (1898-1989), one of the most respected authors of historical fiction, received the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Medals, and the Hans Christian Andersen Author Medal, the highest international recognition for a body of work by an author of books for young readers. Some of his many books include The Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Road to Damietta, Sing Down the Moon, and The Black Pearl.

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