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Look to the Hills

by Patricia McKissack

DiariesSlaveryFictionAfrican AmericansIdentityHistoryUnited States French and Indian War, 1755-1763Children's fiction

Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

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Book data: Open Library