TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson, Catherine,
TI  - Hero
SN  - 0192718533
U1  - 823.914 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Boxing stories
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Racially mixed children
KW  - fast
KW  - East End (London, England)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - East End
KW  - Young adult works
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - Hero is the only child of John da Costa, a former black slave from the West Indies. Her white mother, who died giving birth, was the daughter of a Jewish merchant who owns a pub. Set in the early 19th century, this novel has an appealing heroine who is over six feet tall and given to fighting back
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