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Juvenile Historical Fiction
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
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Description
Two years since he was evacuated out of Vietnam, twelve-year-old Matt Pin is struggling to suppress his memories of the deadly war that gripped his homeland. However, circumstances beyond his control are about to make the memories come flooding back and reveal a horrid secret Matt thought he had left back in Vietnam.