A newfound friendship with the educated Elijah fuels his growth he teaches Miles to read through furtively spelling letters in the sand and on his palms. The author deftly builds Miles's awakening through his exposure to this hard labor and cruelty. Miles finds his life upended when Master Tillery catches him with a book: ""Slaves caught looking in books on the Tillery Plantation risked being sold away or maybe even put to death."" Instead, Miles's surrogate mother, Mama Cee, forms an ""understanding"" with the mistress, who sends Miles to a ""breakin' ground"" to have his spirit broken by greedy overseers. McGill (Molly Bannaky) compellingly builds a 12-year-old's transformation from complacent house slave to potential runaway in her historical novel set on a South Carolina slave plantation in 1851.
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