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Until the Day Arrives by Machado, Ana Maria; Springer, Jane is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Until the Day Arrives about?

A fast-moving middle-grade novel set in the seventeenth century about two Portuguese orphans who are sent to Brazil where they encounter slaves from Africa. Together with their new friend, an aboriginal boy, they work towards reuniting the slaves with their families and helping them escape to freedom. The novel opens when Bento is wrongly thrown into Lisbon’s prison by the king’s guards, leaving his younger sibling, Manu, to fend for himself. Fortunately, a nobleman’s family helps to reunite the siblings — although they will have to lead a life of exile in Brazil. They keep secret the fact that Manu is a girl in disguise so that she will be able to accompany her brother aboard ship. The story shifts to the African savannah, where a young boy, Odjigi, is hunting gazelle with his father and other men. But the hunters soon become the hunted — they are kidnapped by slave traders, as are the women and children of the village, marched to the sea, shut up in dark, airless huts to prepare for the voyage across the Atlantic, and then undergo the horrifying trip itself. In Brazil, the siblings quickly adapt to their new lives, but they are shocked by the existence and treatment of African sl

Who reads Until the Day Arrives?

Author

Machado, Ana Maria; Springer, Jane

Publisher

Groundwood Books Ltd

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781554984558

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

3.25 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14