Speculative fiction is taking over the world. From the prospect of new Star Wars films, to blockbuster book success of The Hunger Games and A Game of Thrones and their associated adaptations, to the yearly deluge of comic book films and TV shows, it can often feel like everything is SF/F. And for those who insist they don’t like […]
"Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending the summer of 1960 at her grandmother’s old house in the bayou. Bored and lonely, she can’t resist exploring the house’s maze, or making an impulsive wish for a fantasy-book adventure with herself as the heroine. What she gets instead is a real adventure: a trip back in time to 1860 and the race-haunted world of her family’s Louisiana sugar plantation. Here, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the future and passage of the Thirteenth Amendment is almost four years away. And here, Sophie is mistaken, by her own ancestors, for a slave.
"Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending the summer of 1960 at her grandmother’s old house in the bayou. Bored and lonely, she can’t resist exploring the house’s maze, or making an impulsive wish for a fantasy-book adventure with herself as the heroine. What she gets instead is a real adventure: a trip back in time to 1860 and the race-haunted world of her family’s Louisiana sugar plantation. Here, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the future and passage of the Thirteenth Amendment is almost four years away. And here, Sophie is mistaken, by her own ancestors, for a slave.
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The Freedom Maze
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The Freedom Maze
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ISBN-13: | 9780763669805 |
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Publisher: | Candlewick Press |
Publication date: | 01/07/2014 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Lexile: | 840L (what's this?) |
File size: | 1 MB |
Age Range: | 10 Years |