No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.
- ISBN10 0140388028
- ISBN13 9780140388022
- Publish Date 28 October 1999 (first published 1 October 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 January 2010
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Puffin
- Format Paperback
- Pages 163
- Language English