Coram Boy (Costa Childrens Book Award (Awards))

Blurb

Coram Boy is a children's novel by Jamila Gavin. Published in 2000, it won Gavin a Whitbread Children's Book Award. The story follows the deserted son of the heir to Ashbrook Estate, Aaron and Toby, a young boy saved from an African slave ship, as their lives become closely involved. The story is told in two sections: one takes place in 1751 and the other in 1759.