Displaying 1 of 1 2011 Title: Never forgotten Author: McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017 Format: Book Publisher, Date: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011. ©2011 Description: 47 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. Summary: In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave. Subjects: Blacksmiths -- Juvenile fiction. Black people -- Mali -- Juvenile fiction. African Americans -- Juvenile fiction. Families -- Juvenile fiction. Slavery -- Juvenile fiction. Four elements (Philosophy) -- Juvenile fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. Family life -- Fiction. Slavery -- Fiction. Genre: Novels in verse. Other Author: Dillon, Leo, illustrator. Dillon, Diane, illustrator. Schwartz & Wade Books. publisher. Reading Level: Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.4 5 Contents: The Griot's prelude -- Dinga, the blacksmith -- A father's journey begins -- The mother elements -- The presentation -- The naming -- Musafa -- Beware -- Musafa becomes an apprentice -- Gone -- The search -- Earth's answer -- Fire flares -- Fire's ordeal -- Water's pursuit -- Water's tale -- Wind's chance -- Wind's saga -- Recognition -- The celebration -- Comes the silence -- Author's note. ISBN 9780375944536 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Find It Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
