Until the Day Arrives

by Ana Maria Machado

Book Overview

A fast-moving middle-grade novel set in the seventeenth century about two Portuguese orphans who are sent to Brazil where they encounter slaves from Africa. Together with their new friend, an aboriginal boy, they work towards reuniting the slaves with their families and helping them escape to freedom.

The novel opens when Bento is wrongly thrown into Lisbon's prison by the king's guards, leaving his younger sibling, Manu, to fend for himself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554984556
• ISBN13: 9781554984558
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8