{"product_id":"the-freedom-dreamers-9781733866019","title":"The Freedom Dreamers","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo parents. No teachers. And only one rule: Be free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, the counterculture is in full swing. Protesting a corrupt war, rejecting the norms forced on them by society, hippies are trying to live better than the generation before them ... by breaking all its rules. Jill, a young runaway longing to be a Broadway star, finds acceptance in a makeshift family of fellow outcasts and misfits living on the streets of Manhattan. And with Eric--a handsome dropout just months away from the draftable age of eighteen--she finds the thrilling possibility of first love. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But her new life isn't all peace and flowers: the specter of the war is ever-present, and some of the tribe's risk-taking comes at a tragic price. Are they really changing the world? Or are they just dreaming?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alicia Brown's debut novel captures the energy of the turbulent sixties: the music, the experimentation, the fear of the draft, and the hippie culture's alluring offer of total freedom and belonging.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Freedom means choices, and choices come with grown-up consequences in this fresh, lively coming-of-age novel set in NYC during the fast and loose sixties.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Janet Nichols Lynch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peachtree Content\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733866019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Alicia Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39992285364405,"sku":"9781733866019","price":9.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8f21a0f8-eb7f-4a43-8810-29848220ec70.jpg?v=1620708149","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-freedom-dreamers-9781733866019","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}