The Freedom Maze
Delia Sherman
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1960 in America and thirteen-year-old Sophie is frustrated. Her mother has sent her to spend summer with Grandmama on their family s old estate in the sweltering bayous of southern Louisiana. Once a grand plantation, a hive of activity, it is now ramshackle, run down and all-but abandoned.
Bored, lonely and far too hot, Sophie starts exploring. When she discovers an overgrown maze, she makes her way inside, and lost among its pathways she finds a magical creature who promises her the adventure of a lifetime . . .
Sophie is transported a hundred years into the past to the Oak River plantation in its heyday. Her own ancestors mistake her for a slave girl and set her to work alongside the hundreds of other slaves who tend to the fields, the house, and the white family s every whim. As the reality of slave life becomes horribly clear, Sophie starts to wonder how long she ll survive; and how or if she will ever get back home.
Both exciting and truly heart-breaking, The Freedom Maze is a very special novel about slavery, survival and the many paths to freedom.
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Praise for The Freedom Maze
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In 1960 Sophie's wish unexpectedly results in her trip back in time to her family's plantation in 1860 . . . This is a riveting, edge-of-the-seat story. Delia Sherman is a brilliant writer, and this book is the most recent proof of that.I think younger readers and adults alike will be completely riveted by her magical journey into her own family s double-edged past.The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story s end, that little bit older and wiser.A subtle and haunting book that examines what it means to be who we are.
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