Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
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Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born\, Junie has spen t her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama\, cooking and cleaning alon gside her family\, and tending to the white master&rsquo\;s daughter\, Vio let. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds\, while she s pends her nights secretly roaming through the forest\, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister\, Minnie. \; \;When wea lthy guests arrive from New Orleans\, hinting at marriage for Violet and u pending Junie&rsquo\;s life\, she commits a desperate act&mdash\;one that rouses Minnie&rsquo\;s spirit from the grave\, tethered to this world unle ss Junie can free her. She enlists the aid of Caleb\, the guests&rsquo\; c oachman\, and their friendship soon becomes something more. Yet as long-he ld truths begin to crumble\, she realizes Bellereine is harboring dark and horrifying secrets that can no longer be ignored. \; With time tickin g down\, Junie begins to push against the harsh current that has controlle d her entire life. As she grapples with an increasingly unfamiliar world i n which she has little control\, she is forced to ask herself: When we cho ose love and liberation\, what must we leave behind?
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