Burg, Ann E.,

Unbound : a novel in verse / Ann E. Burg. - 345 pages ; 20 cm.

"This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 2016"--Title page verso.

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.

ISBN: 9781338282085 1338282085

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slaves--Social conditions--United States--Fiction.
Fugitive slaves--United States--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Slavery--United States--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--Fiction.
Southern States--History--1775-1865--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Novels in verse.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]