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Willow

Author: Tonya Hegamin
Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Elementary and junior high school : Fiction : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
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Genre/Form: Young adult fiction
Bildungsromans
Young adult works
History
Fiction
Juvenile works
Historical fiction
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Elementary and junior high school, Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Tonya Hegamin
ISBN: 0763657697 9780763657697
OCLC Number: 869239713
Awards: A Junior Library Guild Selection.
Description: 374 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice --
between bondage and freedom, family and love --
as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
Responsibility: Tonya Cherie Hegamin.
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In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.

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Escaping to Freedom

by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2015-05-06) Very Good Permalink

This book was really good.  A young girl named Willow would rider her horse to an old willow tree that her mother planted and write to her in an old journal. Later she got all dressed up and gained attention from a boy who was quite rude at the time.  The she and her family learned what...
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