Greenwich 1738, and eight-year-old Ignatius lives with three sisters. Not as a member of their family, but more or less a pet - a toy. He serves them breakfast, lunch and dinner, fetches and carries, does their bidding and all without thanks or a smile. He lives with the constant possibility of being sent away to a sugar plantation - to endure back-breaking work away from everything and everyone he has ever known.
When the threat of being sent back to the West Indies to be enslaved on a plantation becomes suddenly all too real, Ignatius must escape and start to build a real and brilliant life for himself.
"I have to sit down. I need to wipe my eyes. Imagine, me, the little boy who slaved for the sisters and had to fight so hard to be able to read and write, has become the first black man to have a say in who governs England."
Experience history first-hand with My Story.
| ISBN: | 9781407199573 |
| Publication date: | 5th August 2021 |
| Author: | Judy Hepburn |
| Publisher: | Scholastic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 156 pages |
| Series: | My Story |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Children’s / Teenage general interest: Lives of children in the past Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance PSHE: Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Wellbeing PSHE: Family Issues PSHE: Multiculturalism, Diversity and Inclusion Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction True Stories |