Title: Chasing the Nightbird
Description: In 1851 New Bedford, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Cape Verdean sailor Lucky Valera is kidnapped by his estranged half-brother and forced to work in a mill, but while Lucky is plotting his escape he meets a former slave and a young Quaker girl who influence his plans.
Subjects: Conduct of life, Abolitionists, Cape Verdean Americans, Sailors, Fugitive slaves, History, Fiction, Cabo Verdean Americans, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Sailors, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Massachusetts, fiction
Places: Massachusetts
Time periods: 1775-1865