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  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox, George Guidall, Recorded Books

    Audiobook (Recorded Books, May 12, 2014)
    One day, 13-year-old Jessie Bollier is earning pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he is kidnapped and thrown aboard a slave ship, where his job is to provide music while shackled slaves "dance" to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. As the endless voyage continues, Jessie grows increasingly sickened by the greed, brutality, and inhumanity of the slave trade, but nothing prepares him for the ultimate horror he will witness before his nightmare ends - a horror that will change his life forever.
  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Aladdin, Sept. 16, 2008)
    One day, thirteen-year-old jessie Bollier is earning pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he is kidnapped and thrown aboard a slave ship, where his job is to provide music while shackled slaves "dance" to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. As the endless voyage continues, Jessie grows increasingly sickened by the greed, brutality, and inhumanity of the slave trade, but nothing prepares him for the ultimate horror he will witness before his nightmare ends -- a horror that will change his life forever.
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  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox, Christopher Paul Curtis

    eBook (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, June 28, 2016)
    Newbery Medal Winner: A young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship in this iconic novel. Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown over his head and he’s knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, Jessie finds himself aboard a slave ship, bound for Africa. There, the Moonlight picks up ninety-eight black prisoners, and the men, women, and children, chained hand and foot, are methodically crammed into the ship’s hold. Jessie’s job is to provide music for the slaves to dance to on the ship’s deck—not for amusement but for exercise, as a way to to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. Over the course of the long voyage, Jessie grows more and more sickened by the greed of the sailors and the cruelty with which the slaves are treated. But it’s one final horror, when the Moonlight nears her destination, that will change Jessie forever. Set during the middle of the nineteenth century, when the illegal slave trade was at its height, The Slave Dancer not only tells a vivid and shocking story of adventure and survival, but depicts the brutality of slavery with unflinching historical accuracy.
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  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox, Eros Keith

    Hardcover (Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, Feb. 1, 2001)
    Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 2010)
    One day, thirteen-year-old jessie Bollier is earning pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he is kidnapped and thrown aboard a slave ship, where his job is to provide music while shackled slaves "dance" to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. As the endless voyage continues, Jessie grows increasingly sickened by the greed, brutality, and inhumanity of the slave trade, but nothing prepares him for the ultimate horror he will witness before his nightmare ends -- a horror that will change his life forever.
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  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel-Leaf Books, March 12, 1997)
    Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie was kidnapped and dumped aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful duty awaited him. He was to play music so the slaves could "dance" to keep their muscles strong, their bodies profitable. Jessie was sickened by the thought of taking part in the business of trading rum and tobacco for blacks and then selling the ones who survived the frightful sea voyage from Africa. But to the men of the ship a "slave dancer" was necessary to ensure their share of the profit. They did not heed the horrors that every day grew more vivid, more inescapable to Jessie. Yet , even after four months of fear, calculated torture, and hazardous sailing with a degraded crew, Jessie was to face a final horror that would stay with him for the rest of his life.
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  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Yearling, Dec. 2, 1990)
    Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, 13-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he is sickened by the horrible practices of the slave business. But they are nothing compared to the one final horror that Jessie will witness. Can the cruelty be stopped before it’s too late?
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  • Slave Dancer: Novel-Ties Study Guide

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Learning Links, Jan. 1, 1993)
    Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided reading program. Reproducible pages in chapter-by-chapter format provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and the organizational aids that help students get the most out of each book they read.
  • The Slave Dancer

    Paul Fox

    Audio CD (Listening Library, Jan. 1, 1996)
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  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Dell Publishing New York, Jan. 1, 1975)
    Set of books with identical titles for use in guided reading.
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  • Slave Dancer: A Novel

    Paula Fox, Eros Keith

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Oct. 1, 1988)
    A thirteen-year-old boy is kidnapped to play the file on board a slave ship enroute to Africa from New Orleans in 1840
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  • The Slave Dancer

    Paula Fox

    Paperback (Dell, Jan. 1, 1978)
    Rare Book
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