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Audie Prize Nominee, Children's Titles for Ages 8-12, 2013 Set contrary to the burgeoning Civil Protection under the law movement of the 1960s, and then just before the outbreak of the Civil Conflict, The Freedom Maze explores both politics and personal liberation, and how the two intertwine. In 1960, 13-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending the summertime at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou. However the house has a maze Sophie can't avoid discovering once she sees it has a secretive and mischievous inhabitant. When Sophie, bored to death and unhappy, makes an impulsive wish, she slips again 100 years into the past, to the entire year 1860. She hopes for a dream book experience with herself as the heroine. Instead, she gets a real experience in the race-haunted world of her family's Louisiana sugars plantation in 1860, where she is mistaken for a slave. Leader Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the foreseeable future. The Thirteenth Amendment - abolishing and prohibiting slavery - will not be not transferred until Apr 1864. Muddy and bedraggled, Sophie definitely isn't a young lady of good breeding. She must therefore be considered a slave. And she is.
