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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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Publisher : Corsair; 1st edition (2 April 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1472117522
ISBN-13 : 978-1472117526
Dimensions : 19.9 x 1.8 x 13.1 cm

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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. (Tamora Pierce)

I think younger readers and adults alike will be completely riveted by her magical journey into her own family’s double-edged past. (N. K. Jemisin, author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)

The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story’s end, that little bit older and wiser. (Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Out of Oz)

A subtle and haunting book that examines what it means to be who we are. (Holly Black)

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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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WINNER OF THE ANDRE NORTON AWARD.

When Sophie enters her grandmother's maze one sweltering Louisiana summer in 1960, she does not expect to emerge 100 years in the past, on to her ancestors' sugar plantation, mistaken for a slave. Sophie is about to learn a historical lesson she'll never forget.

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Delia Sherman was born in Japan and raised in New York City. Her 'New York Between' novels for younger readers are Changeling and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen. Delia enjoys teaching writing workshops, most recently at the Hollins University Masters Degree Program in Children s Literature. After many years in Boston, she once again lives in New York City, but travels at the drop of a hat.

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'A subtle and haunting book that examines what it means to be who we are.' Holly Black, author of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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.

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.

Exciting and truly heart-breaking, The Freedom Maze is a very special novel about slavery, survival and the many paths to freedom.

‘This is a riveting, edge-of-the-seat story. Delia Sherman is a brilliant writer.’ Tamora Pierce

‘The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story's end, that little bit older and wiser.’ Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked

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Brad

A book to read more than once

Reviewed in Canada on 16 June 2014

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This is a very good read. Written for young adults but is enjoyable for older adults as well. I enjoyed the fantasy aspect of the book.

Fred Coulter

Prometheus Winner

Reviewed in the United States on 7 October 2012

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This novel is the (co) winner of the Best Libertarian Science Fiction Novel of 2011.

It really isn't science fiction, but it is a good examination of racism in the 1960s as compared to the 1860s. The time travel is really just a wink and a nod, but that's all that's needed for this book.

I've had problems trying to teach my teenage children how bad things were when I was growing up. (They can't conceive of the fact that President Obama's parents were not legally married according to several states.) This book brings those attitudes front and center, in a book that also entertaining.

I think the book is better marketed towards young adults, but (as with many YA boooks) it is still entertaining towards us old fogies.

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S. Su

Southern Girl's Coming-of-Age Set Across Two Time Periods

Reviewed in the United States on 13 July 2012

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THE FREEDOM MAZE is an odd and intriguing book, blending two historical periods with mystical elements. At its core, though, this is a traditional coming-of-age story--which actually makes it hard for me to decide how I feel about this book.

In the sweltering summer of 1960, 13-year-old Sophie's newly divorced mother sends her to her family's old plantation to live. Sophie, awkward in her body and struggling to be the graceful lady her family demands her be while she'd rather bury her nose in books, thinks it will be a miserable summer...until she meets a strange creature who ends up sending her back in time to 1860!

Sophie's Fairchild ancestors mistake her as a slave, and at first the work demands are unfamiliar and difficult. But gradually, Sophie learns to manage herself, and better understands her white ancestors as well as her fellow slaves. Still, there's the problem of returning to 1960...

In middle school, I read a book called The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, which tells the story of a modern girl who gets thrown back in time to WWII Europe. THE FREEDOM MAZE follows the same storypath. It is clear that Sherman has meticulously done her research on both time periods: the dialogue feels authentic, social beliefs ingrained, and details regarding setting extraordinary. It's hard enough accurately depicting one historical period; Delia Sherman has to make everyone look like underachievers by doing so for two!

All of that is the backdrop, however, for the classic bildungsroman structure of this story. THE FREEDOM MAZE involves slavery and racism and Southern culture, but it's not interested in that so much as it is in Sophie's development from a petulant child to a more independent teenager. And that's where my potential love for this book trips up. Sophie is sympathetic at the beginning of the novel, when she is ordered this way and that by her "Southern belle" mother and grandmother, but when half the book passes and Sophie is still petulant and incompetent, my sympathy for her waned a bit. Of course, it wouldn't be a bildungsroman if Sophie didn't eventually learn, but it was a bit of a struggle for me in the middle to continue to be invested in the well-being of a timid and fretful girl. Think Mary from The Secret Garden, thrust into the pre-Civil War American South.

THE FREEDOM MAZE is not a book for those who like their plots and pacing action-packed and always-running. I put the book down several times out of repetitiveness and Sophie's stagnancy before I began to be invested. And while I'm glad to have finished it, half of a book with a slow plot and fretful main character is still too much for me to like it fully. THE FREEDOM MAZE will be best for patient readers who like their readings challenging, well-researched, and with just a dash of the fantastical.

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Susan Murphy

The Freedom Maze

Reviewed in the United States on 14 September 2019

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Back in time historical fiction skillfully told weaving coming of age; slavery; and divorce themes. No one has done it better.

nbachana

6th grade daughter and I both really enjoyed.

Reviewed in the United States on 25 March 2017

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Great historical details on a southern sugar plantation in 1860.

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