Steal Away Home
Published on 11. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-689-82435-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
US School Grade: From Preschool to Second Grade, Reading Age: From 8 to 12 years, Interest Age: From 8 to 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-689-82435-7 (9780689824357)
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Person
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 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.