The Secret to Freedom

by Marcia K. Vaughan

Book Overview

Great Aunt Lucy tells a story of her days as a slave, when she and her brother, Albert, learned the quilt code to help direct other slaves and, eventually, Albert himself, to freedom in the North.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584300213
• ISBN13: 9781584300212
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

It's up to the siblings to help slaves escape to freedom

Set in the years before the Civil War is this story of Lucy and her brother, whose parents have been sold as slaves. It's up to the siblings to help slaves escape to freedom using a 'quilt code' by the Underground Railroad: when he brother escapes as well, Lucy wonders if their family will ever unite. Good reading skills will lend to an appreciation of this pre-war saga.