Underground to Canada

Smucker, Barbara Claassen. (Author). McNeely, Tom. (Added Author). Hofbauer, Imre. (Added Author). Lilly, Charles. (Added Author).

Summary: Taken from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, Julilly dreams of freedom and escape from the brutality of the plantation. When some workers from the "underground railway" offer to help Julilly and her friend Liza, they leave on a dangerous journey to freedom.

Record details

ISBN: 9780141306865 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0141306866 (Puffin pbk. 1999)
Physical Description: print
144 p. : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: [Harmondsworth] : Puffin ; Toronto : Clarke, Irwin, 1999, c1977.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Revised edition, 1999, has a new introduction by Lawrence Hill. Canadian ed. published under title: Underground to Canada; American HarperTropy 1979 ed. published under the title: Runaway to freedom: A story of the Underground Railroad. See holdings for dates.

1999 ed. illustrated by Imre Hofbauer; 1977 ed. illustrated by Tom McNeely; 1979 HarperTrophy pbk. ed. illustrated by Charles Lilly.

2013 Puffin Classics edition is introduced by Lawrence Hill.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography : p.142-143.