Steal away home /

Steal away home / Lois Ruby.

In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruby, Lois.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Macmillan, [1994]
Subjects:
Slavery > Fiction.
Underground Railroad > Fiction.
Quakers > Fiction.
Fugitive slaves > Fiction.
Kansas > Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Tear Down the Wall
  • No Names
  • Identity: Unknown
  • The Wakarusa War
  • Night of the Living Bones
  • The Free-State Hotel
  • No Nancy Drews
  • You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!
  • Edmund Wolcott's Castle
  • Thirty Cannonballs
  • The Sack of Lawrence
  • Follow the Drinking Gourd
  • The Conductor
  • Three First Names
  • Uncle Mose
  • They Never Looked Back
  • The View from Lizbet's Cot
  • Like a Real Son
  • Plumb Crazy
  • Tornado!
  • Wild Indigo
  • Hush Puppies
  • Will's Quest
  • I'm Melting, I'm Melting!
  • All Alone
  • Hog Slaughter
  • The Funeral
  • The Return of Marshal Fain
  • Up to the Tower
  • Amen
  • Written in Stone.

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