by Barbara Smucker · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782081617520
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Julilly, Lisa, and two other young Black individuals escape from the Ross plantation and embark on a long and perilous journey to Canada, the promised land. Aided by abolitionists, they evade the trackers pursuing them. This moving story realistically illustrates the conditions of enslaved people of color. Recommended for ages 11-13.
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.
