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Unbound a novel in verse

The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her 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 bein...

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Main Author: Burg, Ann E. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scholastic Press, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Slaves > United States > Juvenile fiction.
African American families > Juvenile fiction.
Slavery > United States > Juvenile fiction.
Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > Juvenile fiction.
Southern States > History > 1775-1865 > Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse > Juvenile.
Historical fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her 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.
Physical Description: 345 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780545934275
0545934273
Author Notes: Ann Burg's debut novel, All the Broken Pieces , was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Jefferson Cup award winner and an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society, among its many honors. All of her subsequent novels in verse have garnered multiple awards and starred reviews. Serafina's Promise was named an ALA Notable, a Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner, and an NAACP Image Award finalist. Unbound was the winner of the New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize, the Christopher Award, and an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor. Flooded was a Bank Street College Claudia Lewis Award winner, a Bank Street College Best Children's Book (with outstanding merit), and a Junior Library Guild selection. Burg worked as an English teacher for ten years before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York, with her family. Visit her online at annburg.com.

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