When we are young, it often is the emotion of an experience that stays with us the longest. A child might not remember the details of a bad dream, but the feeling of terror the dream brings can remain for a lifetime. That's how the day I was sold into slavery is for me. The feeling of abandonment is almost as fresh today as it was all those years ago, when I was eight. I had never been to school, but I knew that families were supposed to stick together. Parents were supposed to nurture and support their children, not sell them to strangers. Why did my mother not say no? Why did she not fight for me? I was eight! I felt thrown away, and I was terrified that I would never see my home again. Unfortunately, I was right.
Record details
ISBN:9781442481688 (hardcover)
ISBN:9781442481701 (eBook)
Physical Description:print 232 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:First Edition.
Publisher:New York :Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,2014.