Gavin, Jamila,

Coram boy / Jamila Gavin. - London : Egmont, 2015. - 356 pages ; 20 cm

Originally published: London: Mammoth, 2000.

Aaron grows up in the Coram Foundling Hospital, having been saved from death by a boy called Meshak. Meshak, Aaron and Toby, the child of an African slave, all have a narrow escape as Meshak's evil father sets sail to sell them into slavery.

Whitbread Children's Book Award

9781405277037 7.99


Slavery--Fiction.


London (England)--Social conditions--18th century--Fiction.


Young adult fiction.
Teenage Fiction.
General.