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Cane Warriors

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By (author): Alex Wheatle

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the UKLA Book Award Winner of the Young Quills Historical Fiction Award Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Diverse Book Award and Iris Award Longlisted for the YA Jhalak Prize Nobody free till everybody free. Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is ticking, and the day of the uprising approaches . . . Irresistible, gripping and unforgettable, Cane Warriors follows the true story of Tackys War in Jamaica, 1760. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 170g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Oct 2021
  • Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 12+
  • ISBN13: 9781839131127

About Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle is the author of several acclaimed novels many of them inspired by experiences from his childhood. He was born in Brixton to Jamaican parents and spent most of his childhood in a Surrey childrens home. Following a short stint in prison following the Brixton uprising of 1981 he wrote poems and lyrics and became known as the Brixtonbard. Alex has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal won the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award and was awarded an MBE for services to literature in 2008.

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