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Escape Into The Night (Riverboat Adventures)
Lois Walfrid Johnson

Escape Into The Night (Riverboat Adventures)

Bethany House Publishers (Jul 15, 1995)
9781556613517
| Paperback
176 pages | 132 x 196 mm | English
Dewey FIC Joh
LC Classification PZ7.J63255 .Es 1995
LC Control No. 95018990

Genre

  • Historical Fiction
  • Juvenile Literature

Subject

  • African Americans/ Fiction
  • Fugitive Slaves
  • Fugitive Slaves/ Fiction
  • Slavery
  • Slavery/ Fiction

Plot

Join Libby, Caleb, and Jordan On a Race for Freedom...Twelve-year-old Libby Norstad isn't sure she's going to like her new life on the Mississippi River in 857. After all, how many girls her age live on a steamboat? And life isn't any easier with Caleb, the cabin boy who's always on some mysterious mission and who seems determined to make Libby miserable.When a fugitive slave comes aboard, Libby and Caleb find themselves tangled up together in the Underground Railroad, trying to help Jordan escape from the slave catchers. But many miles lie between the riverboat and the free northern states. With bloodhounds sniffing their tracks, will they ever bring Jordan to safety? Escape Into the Night was chosen as a C.S. Lewis Noteworthy Book

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