by Burg, Ann E.,
[ ] Physical details: 345 pages ; 20 cm. Subject(s): Slaves --United States --Social conditions --Fiction. | Fugitive slaves --United States --Fiction. | African American families --Fiction. | Slavery --United States --Fiction. | Families --Fiction. | Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) --Fiction. | Southern States --History --1775-1865 --Fiction. | Historical fiction. --lcgft. | Novels in verse. --lcgft.| Location | Call Number | Status | Date Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colonel Gray High School | Available |
"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.