Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad by Monica Edinger, illustrated by Robert Byrd
09 Jun, by in Biography, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific
In what should have been a year-long contract of difficult labor as a "pawn" for a 9-year-old girl whose family cannot survive otherwise, becomes a horrific journey to the other side of the world. Named Magulu by her parents, she becomes Margru because of a...