Coram Boy
Coram Boy
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Coram Boy

Written by Jamila Gavin
Hardcover
$19.00
$17.67
13 - 17
Reading age
336
Page count
249
Words per page
900L
Lexile measure
Oct 4, 2001
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2000 Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Published to acclaim in the United Kingdom, this stunning historical novel delves into a hidden side of eighteenth-century England: the world of infanticide and child slavery. Otis Gardiner, the Coram man, makes a vicious living disposing of the unwanted children and illegitimate offspring of distraught young women, rich and poor. Meshak is Otis’s oppressed, simpleminded son, who finally discovers an infant he considers special enough to risk saving out of the hundreds who have succumbed to his father’s brutality. The infant’s father is Alexander Ashbrook, a brilliant young aristocrat disinherited by his family for his devotion to a forbidden career, who is astonishingly unaware that he even has a son, much less that he has abandoned him. Around this trio and a host of other characters swirls Jamila Gavin’s carefully orchestrated plot, in this disturbing, ultimately uplifting novel about sons and fathers, abuse and abandonment, treachery and devotion.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780374315443
    Publication Date
    October 4, 2001
    Publisher
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
    Original Publication Date
    January 1, 2000
    Page Count
    336
    Words Per Page
    249
    Audience
    Young Adult
    Reading Age
    13 - 17 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    00067200
    WorldCat Number (OCLC)
    45707653
    Lexile® Level
    900L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~V
    ATOS® Book Level
    6.3
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    14
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    54841
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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