Underground to Canada

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Ripped from her mother’s arms by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled and starving in the trader’s cart heading 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 yearn to reach someday: Canada. So when workers from the Underground Railway offer to help the two girls escape, they are more than ready. But the road is long and hard, and the slave catchers and their dogs are always ready to pursue them …

ISBN10: 0143187899	ISBN13: 9780143187899
Format: Paperback	Pages: 160
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd	GoodReads Rating: 4
Author: Barbara Smucker,