Freedom Bound
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I have always been a storyteller. When I was about six years old, my mother would set me in a big comfortable chair with my younger brother to entertain him with stories, which I made up as I went along. My ambition as a teenager was to become a journalist. My hometown newspaper, the Hamilton Spectator, paid me on a freelance basis for my stories. This was more to my liking than babysitting, and it paid about the same. On enrolling in “English Language and Literature” at the University of Toronto, I still thought of myself as a future journalist. But love of literature got the better of me, and eventually I became a high school English teacher. Always interested in history, I saw a need for young adult novels that would present the story of our country from a Canadian point of view. I wrote The Way Lies North, followed by Broken Trail, in the hope of helping to meet this need. Freedom Bound completes the trilogy dealing with Charlotte and other Loyalist young people, some white, some black and some native, during the American Revolution.
If you would like to contact me, my email address is jeanraebaxter@sympatico.ca. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have. My website is www.jeanraebaxter.ca. My Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/JeanRaeBaxterBooks.