Stealing Freedom By: Elisa Carbone This is a book of a young girl finding her way to freedom and the steps she takes to get thier.

Stealing Freedom is a book about a young gil who is trapped between her freedom and her family. In the beginning Ann is about 11 years old. She lives in a plantation in Unity, Maryland with her three brothers, mom and dad. the problem of the story is Ann can't decide whether or not she should run away and risk the chance to never see her family again. Her mom makes most of her families meals. …

…freedom and risks never seeing her family agian. I think the theme of the story is to always follow your hert no matter what. elia Carbone lives with her family in the same house that Ann Maria Weems live in the 1850s. She also makes a living tellign people of Ann Maria Weems life and travel to freedom. Other books she has written are Starting School with an Enemy, the Naked Truth, and Storm Warrior.