Steal Away Home

by Ruby, Lois

• ISBN13: 9780689824357
• ISBN10: 0689824351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Aladdin

Summary

When twelve-year-old Dana Shannon starts to strip away wallpaper in her family's old house, she's unprepared for the surprise that awaits her. A hidden room -- containing a human skeleton! How did such a thing get there? And why was the tiny room sealed up?With the help of a diary found in the room, Dana learns her house was once a station on the Underground Railroad. The young woman whose remains Dana discovered was Lizbet Charles, a conductor and former slave. As the scene shifts between Dana's world and 1856, the story of the families that lived in the house unfolds. But as pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, one haunting question remains --whydid Lizbet Charles die?

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Tear Down the Wall	1	(5)
No Names	6	(6)
Identity: Unknown	12	(10)
The Wakarusa War	22	(8)
Night of the Living Bones	30	(5)
The Free-State Hotel	35	(6)
No Nancy Drews	41	(5)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!	46	(6)
Edmund Wolcott's Castle	52	(6)
Thirty Cannonballs	58	(7)
The Sack of Lawrence	65	(7)
Follow the Drinking Gourd	72	(7)
The Conductor	79	(3)
Three First Names	82	(6)
Uncle Mose	88	(4)
They Never Looked Back	92	(6)
The View from Lizbet's Cot	98	(3)
Like a Real Son	101	(8)
Plumb Crazy	109	(5)
Tornado!	114	(5)
Wild Indigo	119	(9)
Hush Puppies	128	(6)
Will's Quest	134	(8)
I'm Melting, I'm Melting!	142	(5)
All Alone	147	(6)
Hog Slaughter	153	(10)
The Funeral	163	(5)
The Return of Marshal Fain	168	(6)
Up to the Tower	174	(8)
Amen	182	(8)
Written in Stone	190