Thirteen-year-old Nelly has just moved to Salem, Ohio, a Quaker town with many who support the anti-slavery cause.
Her family joins the Underground Railroad, using the secret room Nelly discovers. When she overhears a plot to tar and feather her father, the new editor of the Anti-Slavery Bugle, she realizes there are enemies even in Salem.
Nelly has a chance to fight back when she joins in a rescue, but she learns the hard way that the rescued girl isn’t really free. When Nelly and her best friend at the Quaker girls’ school become the target of a mean trick by a classmate, Nelly wants revenge. Threats against her father stir Nelly to plan retaliation. Or will her faith teach her a better way?
Tabella dei contenuti
1 Two Mean Men
2 Hunt for a Secret Room
3 Throw Out Buckets!
4 The Hidden Key
5 The Fugitive
6 New Friends
7 Granny Ball
8 Portrait of the Robinsons
9 Daring Rescue
10 In the Garden
11 Sojourner Truth Meeting
12 A Visit to Grandparents
13 First Day of School
14 A Poem for Abby
15 Doll Clubs
16 Two Missing Girls
17 Guilty or Innocent
18 The Cistern
19 More Threats
20 Good News and Bad News
21 Problems
22 Sad News
23 Bricks for Freedom
24 Dollars for Abby
25 Errand of Mercy
26 Surprise Visitor
27 Turner Returns
28 Christmas Times
29 The Anti-Slavery Fair
Circa l’autore
KARENS PASSION FOR HISTORY BEGAN AS A YOUNG GIRL and led her to complete a copy of an early Ohio settler’s diary in her senior year. After earning a bachelor’s degree cum laude in English and Education, she became an Air Force wife, and over the course of nine years lived in places as far away as Labrador. Seeing new lands gave Karen a window into regional and national differences and confirmed an appreciation for her own Ohio roots where she and her husband settled and raised their family. Today, Karen writes historical novels for young readers, seeking ideas from Ohio’s many history-rich towns. As part of her desire to interest children in history, she visits schools impersonating Grandma Sarah, a character in her pioneer novels.
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