The Slave Dancer

One day, thirteen-year-old jessie Bollier is earning pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he is kidnapped and thrown aboard a slave ship, where his job is to provide music while shackled slaves dance to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. As the endless voyage continues, Jessie grows increasingly sickened by the greed, brutality, and inhumanity of the slave trade, but nothing prepares him for the ultimate horror he will witness before his nightmare ends -- a horror that will change his life forever.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 09/01/2008
ISBN: 9781416971399
Pages: 177
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 7.63h x 5.26w x 0.54d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 82 / Slave Dancer
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 6