The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1 : The Pox Party (Hardcover)

from elizabethholloway

This book is a masterful portrayal of both a country and culture on the cusp of war and of a young man and the very personal cost of slavery. By creating a character that for a long period in his childhood does not really realize he is a slave, Anderson makes that awareness so much more dramatic ...

from mysteena

As if I needed any more convincing of MT Anderson's amazing writing abilities! This book is both beautiful and thought-provoking on many levels. It takes place at the cusp of the Revolutionary War in Boston. Octavian and his mother are outcast royalty who live in the home of a group of scientists...

from cuttoothom

This is the second of M.T. Anderson's novels for Young Adults to make my classroom list, and for good reason. Octavian Nothing is a young boy who leads what he accepts as a priveleged life. He does not realize he is a slave, because he has been pampered by his owners for the benefit or their diab...

from SunnySD

Raised in a house full of eccentric scholars, for Octavian the fact that only he and his mother Cassiopeia have names and the rest of the family are known by numbers seems normal. That his food is weighed before he eats, and his bodily wastes are also weighed is also routine. As a child, learning...

from audramelissa

Historical fiction of Revolutionary America mainly told from the diary of Octavian, a black youth raised in Boston and given a classical education. Octavian is a research subject studied by the radical philosophers of the The Novanglian College of Lucidity. As he matures and uses the observationa...