Burg, Ann E.

Unbound : a novel in verse / Ann E. Burg. - First edition. - 345 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her 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: 9780545934275 (hardcover) 0545934273 9780545934275 9780545934275 0545934273

LCCN: 2016022923

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slaves
African American families
Slavery
Novels in verse.
Children's literature

LC Class. No.: PZ7.5.B87 / Un 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6