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The Freedom Maze

By Delia Sherman

By Delia Sherman

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Jan 07, 2014 | ISBN 9780763669751 | Middle Grade (10 and up)

The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman
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Jan 07, 2014 | ISBN 9780763669751

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About The Freedom Maze

“Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending the summer of 1960 at her grandmother’s old house in the bayou. Bored and lonely, she can’t resist exploring the house’s maze, or making an impulsive wish for a fantasy-book adventure with herself as the heroine. What she gets instead is a real adventure: a trip back in time to 1860 and the race-haunted world of her family’s Louisiana sugar plantation. Here, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the future and passage of the Thirteenth Amendment is almost four years away. And here, Sophie is mistaken, by her own ancestors, for a slave.

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Product Details

Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Children’s Picture Books

Paperback | $6.99
Published by Candlewick
Jan 07, 2014 | 272 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780763669751

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Praise

Sherman has created a finely honed work of art, a novel that deals eloquently with complex and intersecting issues of race, womanhood, class and age. In transporting the reader so fully into another time, The Freedom Maze becomes timeless. This is true magic.
—Alaya Dawn Johnson, author of The Summer Prince

A subtle, nuanced, uncomfortable and brave young adult novel about racism and time-travel.
—Cory Doctorow

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