A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north. Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt hanging outside a house. The quilt's center is a striking deep blue -- a sign that the people inside are willing to help her escape. Can she bravely navaigate the complex world of the Underground Railroad and lead her family to freedom?
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Cross Group, Oppression & Resilience
Content: Activism
Settings: Canada, Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Gender: Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American
Cross Group Sub: Central, Direct, Negative, Positive
Character Prominence: Dominant Main