![]() We feel their worries and their dreams as sharply as if we were there. Through Sophie, shuttled from one task to another on the plantation, months away from her own home and time, we see the work done by slaves in the house, the yard, the field, and the sugarhouse. Being whisked away to 1860 and being mistaken by her own ancestors for a slave is not the sort of adventure Sophie anticipated. When a strange creature appears in the house’s overgrown maze and offers her a wish, she impulsively asks for an adventure of her own. She protests their attempts to make her a proper Southern lady, wishing they’d just leave her alone to wander the ramshackle estate-an old sugar plantation-and read the adventure books she loves. ![]() ![]() Thirteen-year-old Sophie wants an escape from her parents’ divorce, her father’s impending remarriage, and her mother’s new job, but not if it means being stuck spending the summer of 1960 with her aunt and overbearing grandmother in the old family home in the bayou of southern Louisiana. ![]() Review by Ellen Brockmole Jessica Brockmole ![]()
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