Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
by Nelson, Marilyn
ALA Notable/Best BooksALA Best Book for Young AdultsCoretta Scott King Award/HonorsEnslaved PeopleBlack PeoplePoetry/RhymesCoop. Children's Book CenterJunior Library Guild Selection
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AR Book Level
5.6
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
2,125
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
85474 EN
About this book
This book is a series of poems on the life of Fortune, an eighteenth-century African-American slave in New England, whose skeleton came to be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum.