"There were two kinds of slaves on the plantation Lillie and her family called home: those who could sleep on the night before the slave seller came and those who couldn't."The summary is hidden because it may contain spoilers. If you would like to read the full summary, simply use your cursor to highlight the next few lines and it will magically appear.
Summary: After her father is killed during a Civil War battle, and the army accuses him of being a thief, a young slave girl is determined to prove him innocent and magically travels to the battle in which her father died to find out the true story.
Philomel Books; 314 pages
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I could not get into this book. It did not have the depth that I am looking for in a Newbery book. Others at my library have expressed this same sentiment.
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Just finished reading Freedom Stone. There are good things about it; I really liked the descriptions of slave life. It gave a good feel for what it might have been like to be a slave. Good character development, especially Lillie and her family. And I liked the references to the Ibo heritage. It lost me with the magical realism, however. Maybe others would find it enjoyable, but I thought the fantasy elements took away from the integrity of the story.
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