by Barbara Smucker · Noguer Y Caralt Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427931404
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Huida al Canadá» is the historical young-adult novel by Barbara Smucker, published by Noguer y Caralt Editores in paperback (125 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Julilly and her friend Liza, two enslaved girls on a Mississippi plantation, who escape disguised as boys and travel only at night toward the north, hoping to reach freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.
This edition includes a foreword by Martin Luther King Jr., belongs to the Cuatro Vientos collection (no. 38), and features a translation by Pilar Molina.
For young readers interested in historical fiction and stories of the struggle for freedom.
Barbara Claassen Smucker was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from 1969 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including Underground to Canada (1977) which is still widely studied in Canadian schools and Days of Terror (1979) which won the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize. In 1988, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for a distinguished body of writing.
