- Children's fiction, Newbery Medal, New York Times bestseller, Juvenile
Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Amina Luqman-Dawson
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Bound to Stay Bound Books, Little Brown & Company, A James Patterson Presents
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316056748
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