{"product_id":"9781575673028","title":"Freedom's Pen: A Story Based on the Life of the Young Freed Slave and Poet Phillis Wheatley","description":"The \u003ci\u003eDaughters of the Faith\u003c\/i\u003e series has been a great success for  Moody so far with 120,000 copies sold. \u003ci\u003eCourage to Run\u003c\/i\u003e is the most successful,  with sales of 39,000. \u003ci\u003eTinker's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is the next highest, at more than  19,000. They are all continuing to grow.\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003eThere  are a few elements of this series that separate it from many other children's book  biographies. First, these books are about little girls. They are not biographies  of the entire life of these characters- these are stories about girls who made a  difference while they were still young. This enables the young girl readers to relate  to the characters more than they would if these characters had to wait until they  were thirty or forty before doing anything significant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond, these stories  are faith journeys. Wendy gets inside the minds of these girls in order to portray  their struggles to make God an active part of their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1761,  Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured  in Gambia and brought to America as a slave. But she didn’t let her circumstances  keep her down. She learned to read and write in English and Latin, and showed a  natural gift for poetry. By the time she was twelve, her elegy at the death of the  great pastor George Whitefield brought her worldwide acclaim. Phillis became known  to heads of state, including George Washington himself, speaking out for American  independence and the end of slavery. She became the first African American to publish  a book, and her writings would eventually win her freedom. More importantly, her  poetry still proclaims Christ almost 250 years later.","brand":"Moody Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150113095920,"sku":"9781575673028","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781575673028_p0.jpg?v=1763778008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781575673028","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}