Amos, by Elizabeth Yates is a biography, won the Newberry Medal, 1951, can be used as an independent read in the classroom. It‘s a book about a you g African prince who is captured and taken to America as a slave. He marries a younger woman named Violet, and he buys her freedom and her daughter. He masters a trade, buys his freedom and died free in New Hampshire. Website: www.bethlehembooks.com #UCFSU19 UDL: 1.2 EL: dictionary