Kidnapped and forced onto a slave ship, thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier confronts the horrors of slavery in Paula Fox’s Newbery Medal-winning “Slave Dancer.” Playing his fife becomes a tool of manipulation as he’s made to ‘dance’ enslaved Africans for their ‘exercise.’ Witness Jessie’s harrowing journey through the brutal realities of the 19th-century slave trade (ISBN: 9781416971399).