INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Sherman, Delia

The Freedom Maze

(2) 4-6 It’s 1960, and thirteen-year-old Sophie is spending the summer at her grandmother’s Louisiana bayou home. After meeting a mysterious creature, she’s transported back in time one hundred years and (with her summer tan) mistaken for a slave. Sophie’s coming of age resonates with moral outrage and righteous indignation. Sherman pays homage to classic fantasy tropes while vividly evoking two historical settings.

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