Freewater
by Amina Luqman-Dawson · 2022
Literary Fiction · ranked #255 in category
Winner · The Newbery Medal, 2023
Twelve-year-old Homer escapes a Virginia plantation with his sister and finds Freewater, a hidden community of formerly enslaved people living in the Great Dismal Swamp — a real historical phenomenon largely absent from American children's literature. Luqman-Dawson's Newbery Medal-winning novel is based on the real maroon communities that existed in the swamp for generations.
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