Unbound : a novel in verse
Title:
Unbound : a novel in verse
Author:
Burg, Ann E.
ISBN:
9780545934275
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2016.
Physical Description:
345 p. ; 21 cm
Abstract:
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.
Subject:
| Slaves -- United States -- Juvenile fiction. |
| African American families -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Slavery -- United States -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Novels in verse. |
| Slavery -- Fiction. |
| Fugitive slaves -- Fiction. |
| African Americans -- Fiction. |
| Family life -- Fiction. |
| Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) -- Fiction. |
| Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction. |
Summary:
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.