Cane Warriors
Author: Wheatle, Alex
ISBN: 9781839131127
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize
Longlisted for the YA Jhalak Prize
Nobody free till everybody free.
Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is ticking, and the day of the uprising approaches...
Irresistible, gripping and unforgettable, Cane Warriors follows the true story of Tacky’s War in Jamaica, 1760.
ISBN: 9781839131127
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize
Longlisted for the YA Jhalak Prize
Nobody free till everybody free.
Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is ticking, and the day of the uprising approaches...
Irresistible, gripping and unforgettable, Cane Warriors follows the true story of Tacky’s War in Jamaica, 1760.
