The Freedom Maze
Autor Delia Shermanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 ian 2014 – vârsta de la 10 ani
Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn t happy about spending the summer of 1960 at her grandmother s old house in the bayou. Bored and lonely, she can t resist exploring the house s maze, or making an impulsive wish for a fantasy-book adventure with herself as the heroine. What she gets instead is a real adventure: a trip back in time to 1860 and the race-haunted world of her family s Louisiana sugar plantation. Here, President Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the future and passage of the Thirteenth Amendment is almost four years away. And here, Sophie is mistaken, by her own ancestors, for a slave."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780763669751
ISBN-10: 076366975X
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 1-COLOR
Dimensiuni: 141 x 211 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN-10: 076366975X
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 1-COLOR
Dimensiuni: 141 x 211 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Candlewick Press (MA)
Notă biografică
Delia Sherman was born in Japan and raised in New York City but spent vacations with relatives in Texas, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Her work has appeared most recently in the young adult anthologies The Beastly Bride Tales of the Animal People; Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories; and Teeth: Vampire Tales. Her novels for younger readers include Changeling and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen. She lives in New York City.
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1960 in America and thirteen-year-old Sophie is frustrated. Her mother has sent her to spend summer with Grandmama on their family’s old estate in the sweltering bayous of southern Louisiana. Once a grand plantation, a hive of activity, it is now ramshackle, run down and all-but abandoned.
Bored, lonely and far too hot, Sophie starts exploring. When she discovers an overgrown maze, she makes her way inside, and lost among its pathways she finds a magical creature who promises her the adventure of a lifetime . . .
Sophie is transported a hundred years into the past to the Oak River plantation in its heyday. Her own ancestors mistake her for a slave girl and set her to work alongside the hundreds of other slaves who tend to the fields, the house, and the white family’s every whim. As the reality of slave life becomes horribly clear, Sophie starts to wonder how long she’ll survive; and how – or if – she will ever get back home.
Both exciting and truly heart-breaking, The Freedom Maze is a very special novel about slavery, survival and the many paths to freedom.
1960 in America and thirteen-year-old Sophie is frustrated. Her mother has sent her to spend summer with Grandmama on their family’s old estate in the sweltering bayous of southern Louisiana. Once a grand plantation, a hive of activity, it is now ramshackle, run down and all-but abandoned.
Bored, lonely and far too hot, Sophie starts exploring. When she discovers an overgrown maze, she makes her way inside, and lost among its pathways she finds a magical creature who promises her the adventure of a lifetime . . .
Sophie is transported a hundred years into the past to the Oak River plantation in its heyday. Her own ancestors mistake her for a slave girl and set her to work alongside the hundreds of other slaves who tend to the fields, the house, and the white family’s every whim. As the reality of slave life becomes horribly clear, Sophie starts to wonder how long she’ll survive; and how – or if – she will ever get back home.
Both exciting and truly heart-breaking, The Freedom Maze is a very special novel about slavery, survival and the many paths to freedom.
Recenzii
In 1960 Sophie's wish unexpectedly results in her trip back in time to her family's plantation in 1860 . . . This is a riveting, edge-of-the-seat story. Delia Sherman is a brilliant writer, and this book is the most recent proof of that.
I think younger readers and adults alike will be completely riveted by her magical journey into her own family’s double-edged past.
The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story’s end, that little bit older and wiser.
A subtle and haunting book that examines what it means to be who we are.
'A subtle and haunting book that examines what it means to be who we are.' Holly Black, author of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
1960 in America and thirteen-year-old Sophie is frustrated. Her mother has sent her to spend summer with Grandmama on their family’s old estate in the sweltering bayous of southern Louisiana. Once a grand plantation, a hive of activity, it is now ramshackle, run down and all-but abandoned.
Bored, lonely and far too hot, Sophie starts exploring. When she discovers an overgrown maze, she makes her way inside, and lost among its pathways she finds a magical creature who promises her the adventure of a lifetime…
Sophie is transported a hundred years into the past to the Oak River plantation in its heyday. Her own ancestors mistake her for a slave girl and set her to work alongside the hundreds of other slaves who tend to the fields, the house, and the white family’s every whim. As the reality of slave life becomes horribly clear, Sophie starts to wonder how long she’ll survive; and how – or if – she will ever get back home.
Exciting and truly heart-breaking, The Freedom Maze is a very special novel about slavery, survival and the many paths to freedom.
‘This is a riveting, edge-of-the-seat story. Delia Sherman is a brilliant writer.’ Tamora Pierce
‘The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story's end, that little bit older and wiser.’ Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
I think younger readers and adults alike will be completely riveted by her magical journey into her own family’s double-edged past.
The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story’s end, that little bit older and wiser.
A subtle and haunting book that examines what it means to be who we are.
'A subtle and haunting book that examines what it means to be who we are.' Holly Black, author of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
1960 in America and thirteen-year-old Sophie is frustrated. Her mother has sent her to spend summer with Grandmama on their family’s old estate in the sweltering bayous of southern Louisiana. Once a grand plantation, a hive of activity, it is now ramshackle, run down and all-but abandoned.
Bored, lonely and far too hot, Sophie starts exploring. When she discovers an overgrown maze, she makes her way inside, and lost among its pathways she finds a magical creature who promises her the adventure of a lifetime…
Sophie is transported a hundred years into the past to the Oak River plantation in its heyday. Her own ancestors mistake her for a slave girl and set her to work alongside the hundreds of other slaves who tend to the fields, the house, and the white family’s every whim. As the reality of slave life becomes horribly clear, Sophie starts to wonder how long she’ll survive; and how – or if – she will ever get back home.
Exciting and truly heart-breaking, The Freedom Maze is a very special novel about slavery, survival and the many paths to freedom.
‘This is a riveting, edge-of-the-seat story. Delia Sherman is a brilliant writer.’ Tamora Pierce
‘The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story's end, that little bit older and wiser.’ Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked