A01=Catherine Johnson
Age Group_Ages 9-11
Age Group_Ages 9-11
ambush and attack
ambush and attack adventure
anti colonial historical fiction
Author_Catherine Johnson
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Black resistance history YA
British colonialism
British colonialism novel
Caribbean historical adventure
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Catherine Johnson
children's adventure
COP=United Kingdom
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epic historical adventure YA
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forgotten women in history
freedom fighters
freedom fighters YA
guerrilla warfare historical fiction
history of slavery
history of slavery fiction
Jamaican culture
Jamaican culture novel
Jamaican history
Jamaican history novel
Language_English
Maroon War
Maroon War novel
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Queen Nanny story
Queen of Freedom
Sawbones
slave rebellion
slave rebellion story
softlaunch
strong female protagonist
The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo
true adventure inspired fiction
True Adventures
YA historical fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781782692799
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 9-11
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1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. In the sweltering heat Captain Shettlewood leads a troop of British soldiers through the thick trees towards the river. They are hunting slaves who have escaped from the brutal plantations. Their mission: to find them, and kill them.
But up ahead, hidden among the rocks above the water, a group of men with cutlasses and muskets wait patiently for the instructions of their leader. Queen Nanny is a 'wise woman' with a reputation for ancient obeah magic, and a guerilla fighter with a genius for organisation. So the battle for Jamaica begins, the First Maroon War, in which the maroons - escaped slaves - will make a final, do-or-die stand against the slavers and soldiers of Empire.
Catherine Johnson, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has written many titles for younger readers with a historical setting. Sawbones, a murder mystery set in eighteenth-century London, won the Young Quills Award for Best Historical Fiction 2015. The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo is about a cobbler's daughter from Devon who, in the early nineteenth-century, passed herself off as a Princess from Indonesia. Catherine is half-Jamaican and knows the Blue Mountains well.
