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Author:
Burg, Ann E. Unbound : a novel in verse.
Title:
Unbound : a novel in verse / Ann E. Burg.
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc.
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
345 pages ; 20 cm.
Subject:
1775-1865.
Novels in verse.
Fugitive slaves--United States--Juvenile fiction.
Fugitive slaves.
Slavery--Juvenile fiction--United States.
Slavery.
HISTORY.
African American families--Juvenile fiction.
African American families.
Family life--Fiction.
Slaves--United States--Social conditions--Juvenile fiction.
Slaves--Social conditions.
Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va)--Juvenile fiction.
Southern States--History--1775-1865--Juvenile fiction.
Southern States.
United States.
United States.--Dismal Swamp.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Children's stories.
Notes:
"This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 2016"--Title page verso.
Summary:
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
ISBN:
1338282085
9781338282085
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1018056034
Locations:
FDPC194 -- Upham Memorial Library (Fredericksburg)
UJPE911 -- Norwalk Easter Public Library (Norwalk)

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