Burg, Ann E.

Unbound : a novel in verse / by Ann E. Burg. - New York : Scholastic Inc., [2018] - 345 p. ; 20 cm.

School Library Journal starred, August 2016 Publishers Weekly, July 2016 Kirkus Starred, July 2016 Horn Book, April 2017 Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2016

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.

5.1. 3-6 Follett School Solutions.



9781338282085


Slaves--United States--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Slavery--United States--Fiction.


Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--Fiction.
Southern States--History--Fiction.


Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.

PZ7.5.B87 / Un 2018

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