by Barbara Smucker · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140311228
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«Underground to Canada» is the historical novel by Barbara Smucker, published by Puffin in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Julilly is separated from her mother and sold to a slave trader who takes her south. While working on a brutal plantation, she keeps hope of reaching a place where she can be free. When the workers of the Underground Railroad offer her a chance to escape, she and her friend Liza take flight, with slave catchers and their dogs hot on their heels.
Historical fiction novel recommended for readers aged 8 to 12, often used in schools as class reading.
Barbara Claassen Smucker was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from 1969 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including Underground to Canada (1977) which is still widely studied in Canadian schools and Days of Terror (1979) which won the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize. In 1988, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for a distinguished body of writing.
