Hopkinson, Deborah.

Under the quilt of night / by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by James E. Ransome. - 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. - New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005, c2002. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north. Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt hanging outside a house. The quilt's center is a striking deep blue -- a sign that the people inside are willing to help her escape. Can she bravely navaigate the complex world of the Underground Railroad and lead her family to freedom?

005-010.

ISBN: 0689877005 (pbk.) 1415575878 (BWI bdg.) 9780689877001 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Underground railroad--Fiction.
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]