![]() ![]() ![]() After the death of her master, Achsah is free, but she'll be damned if her daughters aren't freed with her. Before Zorra, Achsah, a slave, watched the very same bayou with her two young daughters. Trapped, she only has the sounds of the bayou for comfortbut it tells her help will come soon. The poacher who captured and caged her has gone away, and Zorra is getting hungrier and thirstier by the day. If only Cade could find it Zorra, a young ocelot, watches the bayou rush past her yearningly. But there's one angel that would be the last they'd ever need to steal an angel, carved by a slave, with one hand open and one hand closed. Walker requests: marble angels, stolen from graveyards, for her to sell for thousands of dollars to collectors. Abandoned by his mother, he and his dad moved to the apartment above a local antique shop. With interconnecting stories ebbing and flowing, this jewel of a novel from Newbery Honorwinning author and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt is a striking depiction of family devotion, a harsh cry for freedom, new love, oh, and an ocelot.Sixteen-year-old Cade Curtis is an angel thief. ![]()
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