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Laurie Halse Anderson's Chains is a carefully researched historical novel. As the American Revolutionary War begins, 13-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, find themselves the property of New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel
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