Hardcover, 351 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 2006 by Candlewick Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7636-2402-6
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OCLC Number:
64390636

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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

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Subjects

  • Liberty -- Juvenile fiction
  • Slavery -- Juvenile fiction
  • Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile fiction
  • African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
  • Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction
  • United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction