Raincoast Books
Available: 10/27/05
5 x 7 3/4 · 200 pages
978-1-55192-839-5
CDN $12.95 · pb

Ages 11–14

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The Freedom of Jenny

Julie Burtinshaw

The new novel by the author of two award-nominated books, Dead Reckoning and Adrift.

With this work, Julie Burtinshaw returns to her forte: fastidiously researched and gripping historical fiction. The story revolves around Jenny Estes, who is born into slavery in the 1840s in Missouri. Through Jenny and her family, Burtinshaw tells the true story of the immigration of a small group of African Americans from the banks of the Mississippi to Saltspring Island, British Columbia, in the 1860s.

This first fictional treatment of a fascinating and important piece of North American history follows in the tradition of Barbara Smucker’s classic Underground to Canada.

JULIE BURTINSHAW (Vancouver) is the highly acclaimed author of Dead Reckoning, Adrift and The Freedom of Jenny. She is an editor at online magazine Suite101.com, a member of the BC Federation of Writers and CWILL (Canadian Writers and Illustrators). She has contributed to various periodicals and magazines, both on and offline.