"I always felt that, especially in touching on African American history, that we have to have a space where we allow our feet to sort of lift off the ground and to fly," she tells Elizabeth Blair. But Luqman-Dawson says she wanted to infuse that history with magic. The setting of Freewater was inspired by the real-life Great Dismal Swamp, where self-emancipated, formerly enslaved people found refuge. The historical fiction novel revolves around two enslaved siblings' escape from a plantation to a free swamp community called Freewater. The Newbery Medal, which the American Library Association awards to the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year, went to Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson. The top children's book awards were handed out Monday morning, at the American Library Association's annual Youth Media Awards.
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