5/12/2023 0 Comments Chains anderson![]() ![]() The unclipped dust jacket shows only moderate shelf-wear. Yound former owners' names and drawings on ffep, one word written on title page ("roots"), otherwise unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.'. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson is a great book about a black girl and her troubles at the start of the American Revolution. ![]() When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. ![]() ![]() Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains. 'If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight.for freedom. Quarter bound in publisher's gray cloth over ivory boards, silver lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. ![]()
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