A01=Susan Kirby
abolitionists
ages 8-12
Author_Susan Kirby
book report
Category=YN
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Category=YXF
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historical fiction
illinois
illinois prairie
middle grade nonfiction
nineteenth century
slave hunters
slavery
underground railroad
Product details
- ISBN 9780689809705
- Weight: 182g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A family, like a quilt, can be pieced together in many ways. And a quilt, like a family, is rich with stories. Lacey's great-grandmother has a trunkful of family quilts, and stories, she loves to share with Lacey. And the stories the old quilts tell help Lacey understand not only the generations that have come before her, but her own family as well.
Take Hattie, Lacey's great-great-great-grandmother, growing up in Mount Hope, Illinois in 1856. Illinois is a free state, but the law allows slave hunters to search for run way slaves, and tensions are pretty high between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in town. Hattie is caught in the middle: her best friend's father is the local constable, and Hattie's own father seems to be involved in some pretty dangerous -- and illegal -- business. But nothing can prepare Hattie for the tragedy that awaits the little town when the tensions finally explode.
Take Hattie, Lacey's great-great-great-grandmother, growing up in Mount Hope, Illinois in 1856. Illinois is a free state, but the law allows slave hunters to search for run way slaves, and tensions are pretty high between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in town. Hattie is caught in the middle: her best friend's father is the local constable, and Hattie's own father seems to be involved in some pretty dangerous -- and illegal -- business. But nothing can prepare Hattie for the tragedy that awaits the little town when the tensions finally explode.
Susan E. Kirby is an award-winning author who primarily writes Christian romance, historical fiction, and children's books.
