Unbound

By Ann E. Burg

Subjects: Novels in verse, African Americans, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Slavery, Fugitive slaves, Southern states, fiction, African American families, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Family, fiction, Slaves, History, Family life

Description: 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.