Adrian-Vallance, D'Arcy.

Amistad / adapted from the junior novelization by Joyce Annette Barnes ; based on the screenplay by David Franzoni and Steven Zaillian ; retold by D'Arcy and Evadne Adrian-Vallance. - Harlow, Essex, UK : Pearson Education, 1999. - v, 40 p. : ill ; 20 cm. - Penguin readers. Level 3 . - Penguin readers. Level 3. .

Presents an adaptation of the junior novelization of the film "Amistad" for pre-intermediate readers, providing a fictional retelling of an early American civil rights case in which fifty-three slaves were captured in Connecticut after taking over the Spanish slave ship "Amistad," and battled all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to win their freedom.

4.3 Follett Library Resources. Young Adult Follett Library Resources.

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Cinque--Fiction.
Cinque--Fiction.
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 --Fiction.
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 --Fiction.


Amistad (Schooner)--Fiction.
Amistad (Schooner)--Fiction.


Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Readers.
Slave insurrections--Fiction.
Slave trade--Fiction.
Trials (Mutiny)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Reading materials.
Slave revolts.
Slave trade--History--Fiction.
Slavery--United States--Fiction.
Trials (Mutiny)--History--Fiction.

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