Unbound
Subtitle: a novel in verse
By: by Ann E. Burg
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780545934275; 9780545937887
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; African American families; Family life; Slavery; Fugitive slaves; Slaves; Fiction; African Americans; Novels in verse; History
Description: 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.