| Freedom Bound Contributor(s): Baxter, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 1553801431 ISBN-13: 9781553801436 Publisher: Ronsdale Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: January 2012 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Canada - Pre-confederation (to 1867) - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Canada - Native Canadian |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2012493678 |
| Age Level: 13-17 |
| Grade Level: 8-12 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.6" L (0.65 lbs) 246 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Topical - Civil War |
| Features: Maps, Price on Product |
| Awards: Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Bronze Medal Winner, Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural, 2012 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this final instalment of Jean Rae Baxter's best-selling trilogy, eighteen-year-old Charlotte arrives in Charleston in the beleaguered Thirteen Colonies to join her new husband Nick. She little expects that she will be searching for him in an alligator-infested South Carolina swamp. During these final months of the American Revolution, she must muster all her wit and courage not just to rescue Nick but also to save the young soldier Elijah from despair and to bring freedom to the pair of teenage runaway slaves she has befriended. Charlotte and her friends meet some of life's most dangerous challenges as they encounter the perils of nature and of war. Freedom Bound delivers a frank and realistic picture of the slave system and a powerful account of what was at stake for both white and black Loyalists as they prepared to set forth to find a new home in the country that was soon to be Canada. Like The Way Lies North and Broken Trail, the two novels that preceded it, Freedom Bound contains a wealth of carefully researched historical details of one of the least known chapters of our history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baxter, Jean: - Jean Rae Baxter was born in Toronto, grew up in Hamilton, and spent much of her adult life in the Kingston area. She started writing full-time a dozen years ago, following a career in education. She writes for both adults and young adults. Her first novel, The Way Lies North (Ronsdale Press, 2007), won the 2008 Arts Hamilton award for best Young Adult novel, and was also a nominee for the Ontario Library Association's Red Maple Award and for British Columbia's Stellar award. In 2011 Ronsdale Press published Broken Trail, the sequel to The Way Lies North. Freedom Bound completes her trilogy of novels telling the stories of young people caught up in the violence of the American Revolution. She has also published two collections of short stories, A Twist of Malice and Scattered Light and a literary murder mystery, Looking for Cardenio. Jean Rae Baxter currently lives in Hamilton, where she is co-chair of Hamilton Arts Council's Literary Advisory Committee and serves as one of the organizers of the LiT LiVe Reading Series. |
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