Description
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
Awards
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (Picture Books — 2011)
Parents' Choice Book Award (2012)
Coretta Scott King Award (Honor — 2012)
Skipping Stones Honor Award (2012)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Children's Book Award — 2014)
CCBC Choices (2012)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2012)
Notable Children's Book (2012)