The wind rises

Title:

The wind rises

JLCTITLE245:

Timothée de Fombelle ; illustrated by François Place ; translated from the French by Holly James.

Personal Author:

Fombelle, Timothée de, 1973- author.

Uniform Title:

Alma. Le vent se lève. English

Publication Information:

New York : Europa Editions, 2022.

Physical Description:

397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9781609457877

Series:

Alma ; book 1

General Note:

Original title: Alma. Le vent se lève.

Abstract:

It is 1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by the slave trade. The journey to bring her brother home becomes a harrowing adventure to save herself, her family, and the memory of her people. Meanwhile, in Lisbon, Joseph Mars, an orphan turned petty thief devises a great plan to land himself aboard a slave ship, The Sweet Amelie, on the ultimate quest: to find a pirate's treasure in the far reaches of the Caribbean. But as time passes, he learns he's not alone in his hunger for the treasure, which forces him to rethink the true purpose of his presence aboard The Sweet Amelie.

Reading Level:

HL 730 L Lexile

Subject Term:

Slave trade -- Africa, West -- 18th century -- Fiction.

Slave trade -- Caribbean Area -- 18th century -- Fiction.

Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- 18th century -- Fiction.

Enslaved children -- Caribbean Area -- 18th century -- Fiction.

Slave trade -- Africa, West -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Slave trade -- Caribbean Area -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Enslaved children -- Caribbean Area -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Young adult fiction.