![]() ![]() Ruth, Isabel, Curzon and Aberdeen (a friend and companion of Ruth’s) begin the trip back north toward freedom, but this journey, in the middle of the Revolution and veering directly into the center of the Battle of Yorktown, is not simple for anyone. Ruth is scared and angry, plagued by seizures and distrustful of Isabel. Finding Ruth, however, may not give Isabel the family she imagines. Isabel is heading back south with Curzon to find Ruth, her sister who was taken from her as an infant and sold. Ashes, the thrilling and long-awaited conclusion to Laurie Halse Anderson’s award-winning Seeds of America trilogy, continues the story of Isabel and Curzon, who have been thrust into the middle of the American Revolution. As one hopeful event occurs, painful ones follow. ![]() Isabel’s life is filled with contradictions. War, death, slavery patience, freedom, dreams. ![]()
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