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Africa Is My Home: The Story of Sarah Margru Kinson is a real nonfiction story of a person from Sierra Leone named Margru who goes to America as a slave because they think she is from Cuba. But she really is from Africa so she gets to go home in the end. My teacher, Ms. Edinger wrote a slightly fictionalized version that my whole class is reading and taking notes. We all are writing blog posts on it. Ms. Edinger uses a lot of good literary words like in the beginning page it says, “But they were wrong. I did go back to Africa. I did come home.” Ms. Edinger also uses a lot of historical pictures. On the cover image she has a drawing of Margru. She first goes to Havana, Cuba. Then Margru goes to Connecticut towns like New Haven, Farmington, and Bridgeport. It has a lot of historical people like in the Supreme Court when former president John Quincy Adams fights against Cinque, Margru, and the rest of the Amistad captives. I think you definitely should find out more about it!