Willow

By Tonya Hegamin

Subjects: Freedmen, Willow, fiction, Slavery, Coming of age, Fiction, Children's fiction, Bildungsromans, Juvenile fiction, Slaves, History

Description: In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line. In 1848, an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice between bondage and freedom and family and love. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.