Julius Lester

Six true short stories about slaves and slavery by the noted African-American scholar and Newbery Honor author. SLJ Best Book of the Year.

Born into slavery, adopted as an infant by a princess, and raised in the palace of mighty Pharaoh, Moses struggles to define himself. And so do the three women who love him: his own embittered mother,...

The humiliation and ostracism of slavery is described in vivid and often painful detail by black men and women who were once slaves themselves, for mature readers.