Ajeemah and His Son
Author(s): James Berry
In 1807, at the height of the slave trade, Ajeemah and his son, Atu, are snatched by slave traders from their home in Africa while en route to deliver a dowry to Atu's bride-to-be. Ajeemah and Atu are then taken to Jamaica and sold to neighboring plantations'never to see one another again. "Readers will come away with a new sense of respect for those who maintained their dignity and humanity under the cruelest of circumstances."'SLJ. "Each moment here of the Jamaican-born poet's terse, melodious narrative is laden with emotion. . . . Brilliant, complex, powerfully written."––K.
1993 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1993 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
1992 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)
Notable 1992 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Bulletin Blue Ribbons 1992 (C)
1993 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
Children's Books of 1992 (Library of Congress)
1993 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award
Review(s):
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice, Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books), New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC), ALA Notable Children’s Book, Horn Book Fanfare
ISBN: 9780064405232