# Freedom Over Me

**Author:** Ashley Bryan
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2016
**Page count:** 54
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9781481456913`
**ISBN-10:** `1481456911`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/freedom-over-me-eleven-slaves-their-lives-and-dreams-brought-to-life
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Newbery Honor Book Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and powerful picture book that contrasts the monetary value of a person with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away. Imagine being looked up and down and being valued as less than chair. Less than an ox. Less than a dress. Maybe about the same as…a lantern. This gentle yet deeply powerful way goes to the heart of how a slave is given a monetary value by the slave owner, tempering this with the one thing that can’t be bought or sold: dreams. Inspired by the actual will of a plantation owner that lists the worth of each and every one of his “workers,” th

## Where this book is assigned

### Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

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- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2017 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)

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