Race for Freedom

Great book. Libby is a spoiled child in the beginning of the series of these books and as it goes on she gets some really interesting experience that grew her up.

This is the second book in the Riverboat Adventures series. This series is about a young girl who becomes involved in the Underground Railroad while living on her father's Mississippi River steamboat in the 1850s. It's the spring of 1857, and twelve-year-old Libby Norstad has been living on her father's steamboat, the Christina, for several weeks. Even though she has helped a group of runaway slaves escape, the cabin boy, Caleb, still doesn't trust Libby to help him with his work on the Underground Railroad. Libby has seen the horrors of slavery, and is determined to convince him that she can be trusted. Jordan, the runaway slave boy, is still living on the Christina, unwilling to go on to Canada until he can help the rest of his family escape, and Libby fears the cruel slave trader Riggs has boarded the Christina, looking for him. She is also worried about Elsa, a young German immigrant girl traveling on the Christina that Libby has befriended. Elsa's family doesn't have enough to eat, and Libby fears she is sick. Soon, Libby, Caleb, and Jordan are caught up in another dangerous adventure as they must travel through the woods with slave catchers on their trail. Readers who enjoyed the first book in the Riverboat Adventures are sure to like this one as well. I really like the setting of this series, a Mississippi River steamboat in the 1850s, and I enjoy the characters and the many historical details the author includes. The Riverboat Adventures is a good historical fiction series and I look forward to reading the next four books.

Libby and Caleb are still helping a fugitive slave named Jordan reach his family, and freedom. But things get difficult when Libby fears Jordan's former owner, cruel slave owner Riggs, has snuck on board in disguise. And Libby has made friends with a girl whose family is living on the Christina's deck. Libby tries sneaking food to the family, but then her friend becomes deathly ill. Caleb, Jordan, and Libby take action and go for a doctor. But has Riggs followed? How much longer will Jordan be safe on the Christina? Libby isn't sure she can trust everyone on board as the three of them go for a doctor, to try to safe Libby's friend before it's too late.

This is a great book! This whole series is excellent. I strongly recomend it to all Christian teens 13-15!