Unbound : a novel in verse

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Label

Unbound : a novel in verse

Title remainder

a novel in verse

Statement of responsibility

Ann E. Burg

Creator

• trueBurg, Ann E

Author

• trueBurg, Ann E

Subject

• African American families -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) -- Fiction
• Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDismal Swamp (North Carolina and Virginia)
• Family life -- Fiction
• Fiction
• trueFugitive slaves
• Fugitive slaves -- Fiction
• Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGirl slaves
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• History
• Juvenile works
• trueNine-year-old girls
• Novels in verse
• Novels in verse
• Slavery
• trueSlavery
• Slavery -- Fiction
• Slavery -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSlaves
• Slaves
• Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction
• Southern States
• trueSouthern States -- History -- 1775-1865
• Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
• Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile fiction
• United States
• 1775-1865
• trueAfrican American families
• African American families
• United States -- Dismal Swamp

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Novels in verse
• trueHistory
• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her 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

Tone

• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueLyrical
• trueDialect-filled

Awards note

• A Junior Library Guild Selection
• Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, 2019

Cataloging source

NJQ/DLC

Dewey number

• 813.6
• Fic

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Middle School
• 900

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.5.B87

LC item number

Un 2016

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 3
• 6

Reading level

• 5.1.
• 6.2.
• 5.1

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts!
• Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

pre adolescent