Angel Boy

Angel Boy

Paperback (14 Jul 2008)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The holidays lie heavy on young Leonard Boameh. His schoolfriends live far away from his home town of Accra, his nana is no fun, and his dad - who's great - is away working most of the time. So Leonard decides to run away for a few hours, and when Nana isn't looking he takes the tro-tro bus to Elmina, a historic European fort built to imprison West African slaves shipped off to America. There are lots of rough kids begging there, and before Leonard knows what's happening, he is kidnapped by the meanest gang of all, who plan to use his angel-face to fleece the tourists. Leonard is now a slave, trying to escape from a living nightmare. Bernard Ashley's thought-provoking Ghanaian story, set in the sinister, poverty-driven underworld of gangland, leads to a taut, thrilling climax.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781845078096
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Imprint: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 96
Weight: 116g
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 9mm