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Contributor(s): Kehret, Peg (Author)

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 ISBN: 1416991123     ISBN-13: 9781416991120
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
OUR PRICE: $8.54  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2008
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Annotation: Twelve-year-old Emma Bolton is determined to join her parents on their voyage to France. She'll do anything to escape Aunt Martha and hateful Cousin Odolf. So she disguises herself as a boy and sneaks aboard a vessel she's told is her parents' ship. Too late, Emma discovers that she's a stowaway on Black Lightning, the most notorious slave ship afloat!

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Accelerated Reader(R) title for ages 9-12.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Europe
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 8-12
Grade Level: 3-7
Lexile Measure: 770
Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5" W x 8" L (0.31 lbs) 144 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1800-1850
- Cultural Region - African
- Topical - Self-Esteem
Features: Ikids
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 40143
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 4.0
 
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Publisher Description:
SWEPT AWAY...
Twelve-year-old Emma Bolton is determined to join her father and her sick mother on their voyage to France. She'll do anything to escape Aunt Martha and hateful cousin Odolf! So she disguises herself as a boy and sneaks aboard a vessel she's told is her parents' ship. Too late, Emma discovers that she's a stowaway on Black Lightning, the most notorious slave ship afloat! Her only hope is to hide in plain sight as William, ship's boy for the cruel Captain Isaac Bacon?until a violent storm causes a shipwreck, leaving her marooned on the raging seas off the coast of Africa, with only her wits to keep her alive..

Contributor Bio(s): Kehret, Peg: - PEG KEHRET's popular novels for young people are regularly nominated for state awards. She has received the Young Hoosier Award, the Golden Sower Award, the Iowa Children's Choice Award, the Celebrate Literacy Award, the Sequoyah Award, the Land of Enchantment Award, the Maud Hart Lovelace Award, and the Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award. She lives with her husband, Carl, and their animal friends in Washington State, where she is a volunteer at the Humane Society and SPCA. Her two grown children and four grandchildren live in Washington, too.

Peg's Minstrel titles include Nightmare Mountain: Sisters, Long Ago; Cages; Terror at the Zoo; Horror at the Haunted House; and the Frightmares series.
 
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