Publication
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2006), Edition: 1st Edition, 302 pages
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Subjects
Awards
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2009)
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2009)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2008)
Ohioana Book Award (Winner — Juvenile Literature — 2007)
Gateway Readers Award (Nominee — 2009)
Society of Midland Authors Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 2007)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 2008)
Coretta Scott King Award (Winner — 2007)
Margaret A. Edwards Award (2015)
Florida Teens Read Award (Nominee — 2008)
Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature (Nominee — 2007)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — High School — 2008)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2008)
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Nominee — 2009)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Young Adult Book Award — 2009)
Reading Olympics (High School — 2024)
Language
Original language
English
Pages
302
Physical description
302 p.; 9 inches
ISBN
0689821816 / 9780689821813
DDC/MDS
| 813.54 |