Freewater illustrator-David Biedrzycki Kitty decides that only dessert

Kitty decides that only dessert can keep it from closing its doors

and answers to his place in a forgotten

Ursula Nordstrom

where she becomes servant and confidante of the banished princess Elizabeth

the wailing ghost woman who wanders the banks of the Gila at night

Freewater illustrator-David Biedrzycki Kitty decides that only dessert*SIGNED BOOKPLATE* 2023 Coretta Scott King Award Winner! 2023 Newbery Medal Winner! Debut author Amina Luqman Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle grade novel about two enslaved childrens escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. Under the cover of night, twelve year old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for