You can compare this text to the world because of all the abandon children without with fathers and mothers in the world and looking for searching them. During the end of the book she ends her finding her mother and is happy that she found her. She ends of finding a letter that said the slaves were free so she grabs all her stuff and starts to look for her birth mother. Throughout the book, she realizes that her slave owner had lost the plantation and that the slaves were free. She used to recieve letters from her birth mother but everyone was keeping them a secret because they didn't want her to know about her mother.Ībby is very open minded and is willing to do whatever to find her mother.
All rights reserved.This book was very interesting! It took place in slavery times and talked about a young girl named Abby that was a slave and wanted to find her mother.Everyone kept it a secret that her mother was alive. Reeder, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Columbia, SCĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The book will give some readers a better grasp of the effects of the war on everyone. The characters are depicted as real people with faults as well as good points. Although it has a slow start and the ending is a bit too neat, this novel offers an interesting look at a sad time in this nation's history. Hart gives readers a glimpse into the tragic state of the South at the close of the war and the plight of the freed slaves. Eventually the teen learns the truth about her parents and prepares to be reunited with her mother. Abby is desperate to find out about her mother, who disappeared when Abby was a baby, and wonders why no one will answer her questions about her. Mamie, who raised her, and Pap, feel that they are too old to start elsewhere. She wants to go to "freedom," although she is not sure where that is. Grade 6-9-Abby, a 13-year-old slave, is living on Hammond Plantation in Virginia when the Civil War ends.
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