Sophie looks like she’s been “dragged through a hedge backwards” and her manners are hoydenish at best. One ill-chosen wish later, and she is a hundred years in the past, in 1860, before the War, when the plantation was at its peak of productivity and wealth. Sophie meets a strange creature on her rambles. With all this rattling around in her brain, and the ruins of a neglected plantation to explore, is it any wonder that her imagination turns to haints and other spooky weirdness? And can a reader doubt that such a girl would be just the type to be chosen for her own magical adventure? Sophie is understandably cross with her mom and with this situation, and spends the sticky-hot summer days wandering the grounds and bayou and getting lost in books (particularly her favorite childhood comfort reads like E Nesbit, and mysteries ranging from Nancy Drew to Ellery Queen). THE FREEDOM MAZE concerns a 13-year-old girl named Sophie, who has gone to stay with her aunt and grandmother in her family’s ancestral country home while her mom attends to the business of being a new divorcee in 1960’s New Orleans.
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