Summary
Alternating chapters tell the stories of two girls involved with the Underground Railroad during the years preceding the Civil War. Afrika is a slave who has escaped from a plantation in Virginia and is trying to make her way to Canada. Lucy is a privileged white girl from Boston who learns that her grandfather is a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
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"A rousing good story and two strong female protagonists make this novel of the Underground Railroad an energetic work of historical fiction....Lucy and Afrika are vivacious fictional heroines striving against a backdrop of actual events and real players; they reveal underlying truths in the sad histories of many a slave."
-- Kirkus
"Frank discussions of the brutality of slavery and of northern businesses' interest in keeping the slave economy of the South strong from a solid backdrop fro a well-plotted, readable tale." -- Ann Welton
-- Voya
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Scholastic
Published date: 1996
Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
Ages: 7 to 9
Pages: 267
Synopses
Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.
Publisher's Notes
It's become clear that 14-year-old Lucy Bradford's talents at sea far outweigh her grasp of etiquette, manners and grace. When Pap, her grandfather, passes away, the young, aristocratic Bostonian unexpectedly inherits an awesome responsibility--to carry on his work as a abolitionist and help Afrika, a young slave girl, escape to freedom in the north.
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