Free Passage

What price is freedom? What will a man or woman give forpassage into a better life, a life free of whatever drove themto escape?Set during the horrors of the Civil War, ?Free Passage? tellsthe interlinked stories of men, young women and children,whose lives are torn apart by the War. Each of them fliesin the face of adversity and each triumphs, though in a verydifferent way. It begins with the tragedy of the Maguire twinsand introduces Girl. A deaf slave, Girl, finds forbidden lovewith a good man, her owner's son, only to have War wrenchthem apart. She flees to seek freedom for herself and herchild in Canada. Migrant tinker, Herr Schmidt, seeks acrossthe war torn States to find his missing daughter, Mina, andfinds instead a runaway slave and an orphaned boy caring forhis little brother. The War makes a man of the boy before histime. Mina escapes her captors and lives by her wits, findingher way to safety and a future she could once only dream...Target audience: general readership, YA, older readers Subjects: disability, American Civil War, slavery, coming-of-age, war, children in war, families in war, deafness, migrants, orphans, refugees

• | Author: J.R. Poulter
• | Publisher: Word Wings for Kids
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 90 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1925484114
• | ISBN-13: 9781925484113