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Book Reviews of Amos Fortune, Free Man

Amos Fortune, Free Man
Amos Fortune Free Man
Author: Elizabeth Yates, Nora S. Unwin (Illustrator)
ISBN-13: 9780140341584
ISBN-10: 0140341587
Publication Date: 5/1/1989
Pages: 192
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 41 ratings
Publisher: Puffin
Book Type: Paperback
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bookwormhouse avatar reviewed Amos Fortune, Free Man on
Helpful Score: 4
Story of an African prince, sold as a slave that never loses his dignity and dreams of freedom
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Helpful Score: 3
Originally published in 1950, this Newbery Award winner embodies the quiet method of changing the world. Amos Fortune lived a hard life, but his calmness and solid beliefs affected everyone he came in contact with. His life story teaches us lessons that many people today seem to have forgotten; lessons of patience and forgiveness. And that a little hard work can go a long way toward making your life, and the lives of those around you that much richer :o)
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Helpful Score: 1
This book is used in Sonlight 7 (now Core 100)
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Helpful Score: 1
Moving story.
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Helpful Score: 1
An excellent biography for older elementary students that won the John Newbery medal.
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Different cover but same book. The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.