- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, African Americans
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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Grave, contemplative, bleak and prestige.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- M. T. Anderson
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Walker Books Ltd, Listening Library (Audio)
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780763651787
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