Soon Be Free
No. of pages 320
Published: 2014
Reviews
Great for age 7-13 years
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I ask you, why do weird things always happen to me?
Thirteen-year-old Dana Shannon is no stranger to intrigue. Not long ago she discovered a skeleton behind a wall in her family's house -- a house in Lawrence, Kansas, that was once owned by a Quaker family, the Weavers. The diary Dana found in the sealed-off room revealed that the skeleton belonged to a runaway slave named Lizbeth Charles.
Now Dana's house is a newly refurbished bed-and-breakfast, and the first guests are two shady characters who believed the house is hiding another secret. When Dana gets in their way, she becomes embroiled in a second mystery, this one involving slaves and the Weavers again, and -- somehow - Delaware Indians.
As Dana tried to fit the puzzle pieces together, alternate chapters tell the story of James Baylor Weaver, a thirteen-year-old boy, in 1857. It is up to James to fulfill a promise Lizbeth made before her death. He must travel hundreds of miles to retrieve four slaves and bring them to freedom. The journey will test his strength, endurance, and courage; it will also test his character, when he has to make a terrible choice...
Readers of Soon Be Free will quickly be caught up in this fast-paced mystery-adventure that links teenagers from two different centuries.
Thirteen-year-old Dana Shannon is no stranger to intrigue. Not long ago she discovered a skeleton behind a wall in her family's house -- a house in Lawrence, Kansas, that was once owned by a Quaker family, the Weavers. The diary Dana found in the sealed-off room revealed that the skeleton belonged to a runaway slave named Lizbeth Charles.
Now Dana's house is a newly refurbished bed-and-breakfast, and the first guests are two shady characters who believed the house is hiding another secret. When Dana gets in their way, she becomes embroiled in a second mystery, this one involving slaves and the Weavers again, and -- somehow - Delaware Indians.
As Dana tried to fit the puzzle pieces together, alternate chapters tell the story of James Baylor Weaver, a thirteen-year-old boy, in 1857. It is up to James to fulfill a promise Lizbeth made before her death. He must travel hundreds of miles to retrieve four slaves and bring them to freedom. The journey will test his strength, endurance, and courage; it will also test his character, when he has to make a terrible choice...
Readers of Soon Be Free will quickly be caught up in this fast-paced mystery-adventure that links teenagers from two different centuries.
This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.
There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Simon & Schuster .
LOIS RUBY is an accomplished novelist who has written many books for
This book has the following chapters:
Contents
- Firebird House
- A Leg to Stand On
- Skeleton Key
- Will in the Shadows
- Walking on Egg Yolks
- No More Talk of a Dead Body
- Too Much History
- Cockleburs
- Caught!
- Miz Lizbet's Legacy
- Trap
- Dred Scott
- Hound Dog PJ's
- A Surprise Passenger
- Samuel Straightfeather
- Delaware Woman
- No Hula Hoops
- The Cutest Thang!
- Ronald McDonald Curls
- The Father of Waters
- Silent Scream
- Not Everybody Gets Free
- Air!
- Promised Land
- The Fire-Eater
- One Goes, We All Go
- Ernie's Bait Shop
- Wicked Wicker
- Tonganoxie
- The Crunch of Footsteps
- Flat as a Cockroach
- The Old Man Is A-Waiting
- Floating Feather
- An Old Goofer
- Gift of Feathers
- The Devils in the Cave
- A Politically Correct Indian
- Rats and Ambrosia
- Bo Prairie Fire
- Shprintze's Calico
- Lulu
- Dawgs
- Elder Brother Won't Come
- A Pair of Conjurers
- Hollywood Extravaganza
- A Dang Good Forgery
- The Delaware Project
- A Moral Dilemma
- Whereas and Heretofore
- Lane's Chimneys
- The Missing Treaty
- Stung by the Love Bug
- Time and Mother Earth
- Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
- New Time, Old Time
- Kansas Territory
- Home at Last
- State of Kansas
- Who Knows?