Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Kathleen Van Cleve

Gebundenes Buch

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

Beschreibung

A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction--now in a young reader's edition. Dunbar and Van Cleve share an intimate glimpse into the life of a little-known, but powerful figure in history, and her brave journey as she fled the most powerful couple in the country.

Autor

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University Press in 2008. Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award. She is also the author of She Came to Slay, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman, and Susie King Taylor and is the co-executive producer of the HBO series The Gilded Age. Kathleen Van Cleve teaches creative writing and film at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written three books, including the award-winning middle grade novel Drizzle and lives in Philadelphia with her husband and sons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 146mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781534416178
• ISBN-10: 153441617X
• Artikelnr.: 52906505