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Soon Be Free Hardback - 2000

by Lois Ruby

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"I ask you, why do weird things always happen to me?"

Thirteen-year-old Dana Shannon is no stranger to intrigue. Not long ago she discovered a skeleton behind a wall in her family's house -- a house in Lawrence, Kansas, that was once owned by a Quaker family, the Weavers. The diary Dana found in the sealed-off room revealed that the skeleton belonged to a runaway slave named Lizbeth Charles.

Now Dana's house is a newly refurbished bed-and-breakfast, and the first guests are two shady characters who believed the house is hiding another secret. When Dana gets in their way, she becomes embroiled in a second mystery, this one involving slaves and the Weavers again, and -- somehow - Delaware Indians.

As Dana tried to fit the puzzle pieces together, alternate chapters tell the story of James Baylor Weaver, a thirteen-year-old boy, in 1857. It is up to James to fulfill a promise Lizbeth made before her death. He must travel hundreds of miles to retrieve four slaves and bring them to freedom. The journey will test his strength, endurance, and courage; it will also test his character, when he has to make a terrible choice...

Readers of "Soon Be Free" will quickly be caught up in this fast-paced mystery-adventure that links teenagers from two different centuries.

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  • Title Soon Be Free
  • Author Lois Ruby
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 302
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, New York
  • Publication date 2000-08
  • ISBN 9780689832666 / 0689832664
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.83 x 1.11 in (21.72 x 14.81 x 2.82 cm)
  • Age range 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 830
  • Category Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Mysteries / Detective
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99047319
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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New York, NY : Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000 Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York. 2000. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Author's business card is laid in. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tail; two small smudges on the textblock top. DJ: Very Good+; NOT Price Clipped ($17.00); light bumping to head, tail, tips, and top edge of DJ. Red paper over boards with red overlay on the spine; bright white lettering on the spine. 302 pp 8vo. Dana thought she had solved all the historical mysteries in her parents' house in Lawrence, Kansas. But now that her parents have turned the house into a bed-and-breakfast, Dana isn't so sure. Their first guests, the Burks, are a suspicious couple who snoop where they shouldn't, searching for a secret document linked to the Weavers, a Quaker family who lived in the house almost 150 years ago when the house was a stop on the… Read more
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About the book: While the guests arrive at her family's bed-and-breakfast and begin searching for hidden documents in the woodwork, Dana Shannon becomes involved and learns about a young boy who helped bring four slaves to freedom in 1857. By the author of Steal Away Home. Childrens
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by Ruby, Lois; Podevin, Jean Francois [Illustrator]

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