Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs

Mary E. Lyons. Simon Pulse, $5.99 (175pp) ISBN 978-0-689-80015-3

Based on Harriet Jacobs's 1861 autobiography, this fictionalized account of a slave's escape to freedom is told as a series of personal letters. Ages 12-up. (Jan.)

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