![]() ![]() I want to travel through time and have grand adventures and brothers and sisters and have everybody love me" (p53). ![]() She tells the spirit, "'I want to be like Ann and Roger and Eliza. The spirit continues to visit Sophie, and upon coming to her after a fight with her mother, Sophie tells the spirit that she wishes she wasn't herself. Which meant she must have been talking to real ghost" (p33). The more she thought about it, the less she believed that the voice she'd heard belonged to a real child. Sophie reflects on the spirit: "She knew the animal she'd chased into the maze wasn't just a cat or a rabbit or a muskrat. It is in the old maze that Sophie comes across a spirit that teases and taunts her. When her mother sends her to live with her Aunt Enid and grandmother in Louisiana for the summer, Sophie finds herself exploring the bayou, devouring books, and exploring the old maze in the garden. Sophie loves to read and hates to dress up. The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman is a wonderful story about a young girl named Sophie living in the 1960s. ![]()
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