Title: Willow
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.
Subjects: Freedmen, Juvenile fiction, Bildungsromans, Slavery, Fiction, Coming of age, Slaves, History, Willow, fiction, Children's fiction
Places: United States, Mason-Dixon Line
Time periods: 19th century