{"product_id":"stealing-freedom-9780679893073","title":"Stealing Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwelve-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 dont 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 authors 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924495794229,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679893075","price":65.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679893073.jpg?v=1794134427","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/stealing-freedom-9780679893073","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}