Dahlberg, Maurine F., 1951-

The Spirit and Gilly Bucket / Maurine F. Dahlberg. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. - 233 p. ; 22 cm.

School Library Journal, December 2002 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2003 Library Media Connection, February 2003

In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold in the Rocky Mountains, the eleven-year-old is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befriends one of her uncle's slave girls, finds out about the Underground Railroad, and discovers that people are not always exactly as they seem.

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Slavery--Fiction.
Underground railroad--Fiction.
Aunts--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Virginia--History--Fiction.

PZ7.D15157 / Sp 2002

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