The Freedom of Jenny

by Julie Burtinshaw

Book Overview

Jenny Estes shares her father's dream of freedom. But for Jenny born into slavery in Missouri in the 1840s freedom seems an impossible dream. She toils alongside her mother in the steaming kitchen of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551928396
• ISBN13: 9781551928395
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Raincoast Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

An engagingly original and nicely crafted tale of self discovery

Julie Burtinashaw's novel, The Freedom Of Jenny, is the story of Jenny Estes, a young daughter of a ex-slaves and Madagascar natives, and her family's quest to live in California. As the family realization that California is not so much the better life they had expected, The Freedom Of Jenny carries the tattered family even further north to Canada's Salt Spring Island as Jenny's responsibilities involve the whole family. An engagingly original and nicely crafted tale of self discovery, The Freedom Of Jenny is recommended as a work of entreating fiction with historically accurate occurrences as one young woman and her family strive for a new life.