Underground To Canada: Puffin Classics Edition - Couverture souple

Smucker, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143187899 ISBN 13 : 9780143187899

Editeur : Tundra Book Group, 2013

Synopsis

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 .....

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Smucker was born in a small prairie town in Kansas in 1915 and attended school there through university. Her careers have been numerous. They include newspaper reporting, high school teacher and librarian. She is the author of numerous award-winning novels, including Runaway to Freedom, Days of Terror and Incredible Jumbo. She lived for many years in Ontario, Canada, but now lives in the USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tundra Book Group
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143187899
• ISBN 13: 9780143187899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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