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Joshua and his family, runaway slaves from a tobacco plantation in Kentucky, follow the Underground Railroad to freedom
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Courtni is a native of Washington, DC and for many years taught school. She went to Trinity College and later earned a master's degree in education from Johns Hopkins. While developing curriculum materials, Courtni noticed that there was not much African American history in the textbooks. Friends suggested that she was the ideal person to write such books. She contacted Holiday House and submitted a proposal for a chapter book. The material ended up being separated into three picture books, all illustrated by Gershom Griffith. They have been adopted for use in the CORE knowledge curriculum.
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Kindergarten-Grade 3?Beginning 20 days into their journey from Kentucky to Canada, this is the story of one family of runaway slaves' flight to freedom along the Underground Railroad. The first-person, present-tense narrative, told from the perspective of an eight-year-old boy, lends a sense of immediacy to the telling. Griffith's watercolor illustrations most often show the family members grouped tightly together, and their visual closeness underscores the main worry?that they will be sold apart?which sent them on their perilous trek. Not as rich as Deborah Harris's Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Knopf, 1993), this title nevertheless gives a basic introduction to the Underground Railroad and the dangers and hardships of the journey. Schools involved in the whole-language approach to learning may find the fictionalized autobiographical approach an added plus.?Karen James, Louisville Free Public Library, KY
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- PublisherHoliday House
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0823413330
- ISBN 13 9780823413331
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorGriffith Gershom
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