This book is definitely up there as one of my favorite sub-10 hour audiobooks. I tend to read long, epic fantasy and science fiction books, so this purchase was a bit out of character, but I couldn't resist a tale of time travel mixed with historical fiction. Where does The Freedom Maze rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? Instantly transported to a historical adventure Muddy and bedraggled, Sophie obviously isn't a young lady of good breeding. The Thirteenth Amendment - abolishing and prohibiting slavery - will not be not passed until April 1864. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the future. Instead, she gets a real adventure in the race-haunted world of her family's Louisiana sugar plantation in 1860, where she is mistaken for a slave. She hopes for a fantasy book adventure with herself as the heroine. When Sophie, bored and lonely, makes an impulsive wish, she slips back 100 years into the past, to the year 1860. But the house has a maze Sophie can't resist exploring once she finds it has a secretive and mischievous inhabitant. In 1960, 13-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending the summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou. Set against the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and then just before the outbreak of the Civil War, The Freedom Maze explores both political and personal liberation, and how the two intertwine. Audie Award Nominee, Children's Titles for Ages 8-12, 2013
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