{"product_id":"willow-9781536226027","title":"Willow","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 1848, an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn one side of the Mason-Dixon Line lives fifteen-year-old Willow, her master's favorite servant. She's been taught to read and has learned to write. She believes her master is good to her and fears the rebel slave runaways. On the other side of the line is seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, free born. It's his personal mission to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can. Willow's and Cato's lives are about to intersect, with life-changing consequences for both of them. Tonya Cherie Hegamin's moving coming-of-age story is a poignant meditation on the many ways a person can be enslaved, and the force of will needed to be truly emancipated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTonya Cherie Hegamin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the young adult novel \u003ci\u003eM+O 4EVR\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor with Marilyn Nelson of\u003ci\u003e Pemba's Song\u003c\/i\u003e. She received an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award and a Christopher Award for her picture book \u003ci\u003eMost Loved in All the World, \u003c\/i\u003eillustrated by Cozbi Cabrera. Tonya Cherie Hegamin is the creative writing coordinator at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383226536210,"sku":"9781536226027","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_466f93dc-c277-4f0e-912e-28c864575365.jpg?v=1728781259","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/willow-9781536226027","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}