Willow
By: Tonya Cherie Hegamin
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780763657697
Subjects: Freedmen; Juvenile fiction; Bildungsromans; Slavery; Fiction; Coming of age; Slaves; History
Description: In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.

In 1848, an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice between bondage and freedom and family and love. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.
Notes: Accelerated Reader UG 5.3 13 13 164049