Stealing Freedom

Elisa Carbone

Dec 2008 · Sold by Yearling

About this ebook

Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders--but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family around her. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her older sister, and her protective and loving parents are everything. And then one day, they are gone.

Separated from her family by her master and shipped off as a housemaid, Ann learns something about independence and about love before the opportunity for escape arrives. A white man risks his life for Ann, cuts her hair short, dresses her like a boy, and launches her on her journey on the Underground Railroad to Canada, her family, and finally to freedom.

Until she was a teenager, Ann Maria Weems lived in the mid-1800s near the author's home in Maryland. This fictionalized account of her extraordinary life is ideal for students, teachers, and parents hungry for interesting and informative reading in African-American history and the Underground Railroad.

Ratings and reviews

Underground rail road. Couldn't put it down. People are real. Events are real. I made the journey to Canada with ann maria

I can't download it but I have the book and I looooove it soooooo much I suggest on reading it!

This was a great book. I don't understand why so many people hate it.

About the author

Elisa Carbone lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.