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The Slave Dancer

The Slave Dancer

$315

ISBN:9781416971399
作者:Paula Fox
出版社:Aladdin
出版日期:2008/09/15
尺寸:194x129x13mm

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★ 美國紐伯瑞兒童文學金牌獎
 

In this iconic, wrenching Newbery Medal winning book, a young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship.
 
Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown over his head and he’s knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, Jessie finds himself aboard a slave ship, bound for Africa. There, the Moonlight picks up ninety-eight black prisoners, and the men, women, and children, chained hand and foot, are methodically crammed into the ship’s hold. Jessie’s job is to provide music for the slaves to dance to on the ship’s deck—not for amusement but for exercise, as a way to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable.
 
Over the course of the long voyage, Jessie grows more and more sickened by the greed of the sailors and the cruelty with which the slaves are treated. But it’s one final horror, when the Moonlight nears her destination, that will change Jessie forever.
 
Set during the middle of the nineteenth century, when the illegal slave trade was at its height, The Slave Dancer not only tells a vivid and shocking story of adventure and survival but depicts the brutality of slavery with unflinching historical accuracy.

自1922年以來,「紐伯瑞獎 ( The Newberry Medal )」致力於促進美國兒童文學的創作與發展。此獎項以18世紀受譽「兒童文學之父」的英國出版商約翰.紐伯瑞 ( John Newberry )命名,推崇其「快樂至上」精神,挑選出國內眾多優秀作品。多年來,紐伯瑞獎不僅在美國,更在全球兒童文學界發揮著巨大的影響力。
 
紐伯瑞獎的入選與得獎作品涵蓋了豐富多元的題材和類別,囊括各種類型小說與具時代意義的創作。這些優秀作品的內容貼合世界發展的趨勢,不僅打開對兒童發展的視野,更展現出對人文的深刻關懷。

The Slave Dancer

$315
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