Virginia Frances Schwartz

In Victorian England, sixteen-year-old Orpha, imprisoned for crimes she did not commit, is released upon accepting the invitation of Charles Dickens for a fresh start at a home for fallen women.

Among the Fallen

4 Kids in 5e & 1 Crazy Year

In 1861, thirteen-year-old Phoebe runs away from her master's Alabama plantation and joins four other slaves as they journey to Canada on the Underground Railroad.

If I Just Had Two Wings

Family, school, and life in general are seen through the writings of four fifth graders who have been taken out of an overcrowded New York City classroom and placed with a teacher who shows them how to write and how to believe in themselves.

4 Kids in 5E & 1 Crazy Year

Abram know only slavery, but from the moment he holds his baby cousin in his arms, he is determined to protect her from the harsh realities of life on the plantation. As she grows, however, Eliza cannot escape notice. Her fair skin and blue eyes invite the hatred of the master's daughters, and the young slave's fate seems all but assured. Abram knows that freedom appears impossible, but somewhere - through the scorching heat and the overseer's whip - lies hope.

Send One Angel Down

Salomon a seulement 11 ans lorsqu’il fuit la plantation où il vit en Georgie. Après un long périple, son grand-père Jacob et lui réussissent à atteindre la frontière canadienne en évitant de se faire reprendre par les chasseurs d’esclaves. Il ne leur reste qu’à traverser la rivière pour être vraiment libres, mais un accident survient... Jacob se blesse gravement et ne peut pas continuer la traversée. C’est avec des sentiments confus que Salomon entreprend l’ultime traversée, qui le mènera au Canada et à la liberté. Mais sans son grand-père Jacob, il peut difficilement envisager sa nouvelle vie. Combien de temps faudra-t-il à ce dernier pour se remettre de ses blessures et le rejoindre? Comment feront-ils pour se retrouver? Et si les chasseurs d’esclaves les poursuivaient au Canada? Just 11 when he flees from his Georgia plantation, Salomon avoids the slave catchers and reaches the border separating the United States from Canada. But his grandfather - his only remaining family - has been injured and would not survive the crossing. If Salomon does reach Canada, how will he make his way without Grandpa Jacob at his side? After 1850, when the Fugitive Slave Act passed, it was even more dangerous for runaway slaves to live in the United States (the Act threatened fines or imprisonment for anyone who did not turn escaping slaves over to the authorities). During this period, fugitives passed over the border into Canada. Free Blacks did live in the northern states, but even in Canada, slave catchers sometimes kidnapped them and dragged them back to the South. Original title:Crossing to Freedom

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