Underground to Canada

There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada. The law don't allow no slavery there. They say you follow the North Star, and when you step onto this land you are free ...... Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slaver trader's wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them .....

About the author

Barbara Smucker; foreword by Lawrence Hill

Summary

Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slaver trader's wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday.

Product details

• Authors: Smucker Barbara, Lawrence Hill, Barbara Smucker, Barbara Claassen Smucker
• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.11.2013
• EAN: 9780143187899
• ISBN: 978-0-14-318789-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 180 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Canada Puffin Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / General, Interest age: from c 9 years