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Finished Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson for the 2nds Challenge.
This is historical fiction set during the Revolutionary War. Isabel is a slave. Her mistress had promised that she'd be set free after she (the mistress) died, but apparently her will's with her lawyer--in Boston, and impossible to find. So Isabel and her younger sister are on their way to New York with a less-than-kind new master and his completely hideous wife.
They're pro-British in the war. Isabel doesn't much care at first, but she meets another slave who tells her that if she can spy for the rebels, she'll get her freedom. After something happens to Ruth, she basically decides to go wherever they value loyalty the most (to quote Dwight Schrute).
Really good book. I think I preferred Speak, but this book basically illuminated a lot of aspects of the Revolutionary War that I didn't know about. Really good book and I want to read more of her novels. There will apparently be a sequel to this one but I don't know when it will come out as Anderson's 2009 offering is about girls with anorexia.
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