Emma's Escape: A Story of America's Underground Railroad

My 8 year read this over the summer. She really loved it. Excellent book for a young child to get an understanding of the Underground railroad.

Emma dreams of making an escape into Canada from slavery after she visits the Smithsonian Institute. There is an exhibit there on slavery and as she learns more about it, she wonders what it would have been like to be there. A nice way to connect museums with history and bring the past alive.

When Emma's class takes a trip to see an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution called "Before Freedom Came," she discovers more about life on the Underground Railroad than she ever had imagined knowing. As Emma walks along the George Washington Carver Nature Trail, she trails behind to make a sketch of her mother's favorite flower. The next thing she knows someone is calling her name, it's nearly dark, and she is on her way to travel the Underground Railroad to Freedom across the Canadian border. Escape! tells of Emma's dangerous, but successful trip on the Underground Railroad. Come along and join Emma for a daydream trip on the Underground Railroad. You won't be sorry you did.