Award winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson
2023 Newbery and Coretta Scott King Award Winning Author Amina Luqman-Dawson
Readers age 8-14 and their families are invited to join The Country Bookshop in welcoming 2023 Newbery and Coretta Scott King award winning author, Amina Luquman-Dawson for her paperback tour of Freewater. Amina's award winning Freewater is a striking tale of survival, adventure, friendship, and courage loosely based on the history of maroon communities in the Great Dismal Swamp of NC and SC. Amina will be on hand to autograph books following the presentation.
This event is free but registration is required. Register at Ticketmesandhills.com
Winner of the John Newbery Medal
Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award
An Indiebound Bestseller
A New York Times Bestseller
Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find fre
