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134 pp.
| Absey
| September, 2006
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TradeISBN 1-888842-48-2$14.95
(4)
YA
Fourteen-year-old Tembe is a member of a Maroon colony of runaway Jamaican slaves who live in the jungle to hide from seventeenth-century British imperialists. This short, complex novel covers so much territory that readers without background knowledge of the Maroon people or Jamaica's past may be confused. A history of the Maroon people is included at the end. Bib.