Description
A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad in this Edgar Award-winning book from Virginia Hamilton. The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend--two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms...
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.24w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781416914051
ISBN10: 1416914056
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Classics
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States | African American & Black
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States | 19th Century
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.24w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781416914051
ISBN10: 1416914056
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Classics
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States | African American & Black
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States | 19th Century
About the Author
The recipient of nearly every major award and honor in her field, including the 1992 Hans Christian Andersen Award, Virginia Hamilton (1934-2002) was the first African American woman to be awarded the Newbery Medal, for M.C. Higgins, the Great. Renowned as a storyteller, anthologist, and lecturer as well as a novelist, Ms. Hamilton made her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio.