Freedom Bound

by Jean Rae Baxter

Overview

In this, the final instalment of Jean Rae Baxter's best-selling young adult trilogy, eighteen-year-old Charlotte sails from Canada to Charleston in the beleaguered Thirteen Colonies to join her new husband Nick. During these final months of the American Revolution, she must muster all her wit and courage when she has to rescue Nick from being tortured as a spy in an alligator-infested South Carolina swamp. She must also find ways to bring freedom to a pair of teenage runaway slaves she has befriended. Freedom Bound delivers a frank and realistic picture of the slave system and a powerful account of what was at stake for both white and black Loyalists as they prepared to find a new home in the country that was soon to be Canada. Like The Way Lies North and Broken Trail, the two novels that preceded it, Freedom Bound contains a wealth of carefully researched historical details of one of the least known chapters of our history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781553801535
Publisher:	Ronsdale Press
Publication date:	09/01/2012
Series:	Loyalist Trilogy , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	246
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Following her career as a secondary school English teacher in the Kingston area, Jean returned to her hometown, Hamilton, and began to write in earnest. Her first collection of short stories, A Twist of Malice, appeared in 2005. Ronsdale Press published her young adult historical novel The Way Lies North in 2007. Her literary mystery novel, Looking for Cardenio, was released in 2008. Broken Trail is a sequel to her first novel, The Way Lies North and she is presently working on the third novel in the trilogy. Jean has also published a collection of short stories, A Twist of Malice (2005). As one of the organizers of the LiT LiVe Reading Series, and co-chair of the Arts Hamilton Literary Advisory Committee, she is an active member of Hamilton's writing community.