Celebrate Black History Month
Check out these titles with links to Canadian History! Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad. Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary by Jerdine Nolen A twelve-year-old slave girl begins writing in a journal where she documents her journey via the Underground Railroad from Alexandria, Virginia, to freedom in St. Catherines, Canada. The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad This is the dramatic story of the Underground Railroad as seen through the eyes of two young girls--Eliza, a runaway slave, and Johanna, whose family gives Eliza refuge. Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom by Bettye Stroud While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her