Lois Ruby

Steal Away Home

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When Dana uncovers a skeleton hidden in the wall of her home, she also uncovers a dark secret that stretches back years.When twelve-year-old Dana Shannon starts to strip away wallpaper in her family's old house, she's unprepared for the surprise that awaits her. A hidden room—containing a human skeleton! How did such a thing get there? And why was the tiny room sealed up? With the help of a diary found in the room, Dana learns her house was once a station on the Underground Railroad. The young woman whose remains Dana discovered was Lizbet Charles, a conductor and former slave. As the scene shifts between Dana's world and 1856, the story of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Roth, Stephanie (Illustr.)

ISBN: 978-1-4814-2553-7
EAN: 9781481425537
Produktnummer: 15770225
Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'538 KB
Abbildungen: f-c cvr
Sonstiges: Ab 8 - 12 J.

Über den Autor

Lois Ruby is the author of several novels, including Steal Away Home, which was named an IRA Young Adults' Choice and a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC). Before she turned to writing, she was a young adult librarian for the Dallas Public Library. In her spare time she serves on the board of Inter-Faith Inn, a homeless shelter in Wichita, Kansas, and sometimes teaches minicourses to seventh and eighth graders. The place I feel most comfortable,” she says, is among teenagers, laughing.” The mother of three sons, she lives in Wichita with her husband, Thomas.