About the Book

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Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped as a child from his village in Africa and shipped to America to begin life in slavery. This book recounts his amazing journey to freedom and how he eventually helped to put an end to slavery. The text and pictures graphically portray his life aboard ship, on the plantations and later life in the English gentry.

• Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
• Text type – A biography
• There is a useful glossary and a timeline of Olaudah's life to help children recount the information.
• Curriculum links – Citizenship : to realise the nature and consequences of racism; Geography: To recognise how places fit together within a wide geographical context.
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780007230969
• ISBN 10: 0007230966
• Imprint: Collins
• On Sale: 01/04/2007
• Pages: 48
• List Price:8.50 CAD
• Ages: 8 to 9
• BISAC1 : EDUCATION / Elementary
• BISAC2 : EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics
• BISAC3 : JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage
• BISAC4 : JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General
• BISAC5 : JUVENILE NONFICTION / School & Education

Paul Thomas

Biography

Paul Thomas, M.D., FAAP, received his M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School and did his residency at UC San Diego. He is a board-certified fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and board-certified in integrative and holistic medicine and addiction medicine. His practice, Integrative Pediatrics, currently serves more than eleven thousand patients in the Portland, Oregon, area. He was named a top family doctor in America by Ladies’ Home Journal in 2004 and a top pediatrician in America in 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2014 by Castle Connolly. Dr. Thomas grew up in Zimbabwe (the former Rhodesia) and speaks both Shona and Spanish. He is the father of ten children (ages twenty to thirty-two). He lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.

Other Works by Paul Thomas

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  The Addiction Spectrum

  By Paul Thomas

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  Olaudah Equiano: From Slavery to Freedom: Band 15/Emerald (Collins Big Cat)

  By Paul Thomas

Victor Ambrus

Biography

Other Works by Victor Ambrus

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  Olaudah Equiano: From Slavery to Freedom: Band 15/Emerald (Collins Big Cat)

  By Victor Ambrus