Steal Away Home

By: Lois Ruby

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Paperback | 1 January 1999 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

Age
8 - 12

Grade
3 - 7

Dimensions(cm)
19.05 x 13.34 x 1.27

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When Dana uncovers a skeleton hidden in the wall of her home, she also uncovers a dark secret that stretches back years.

When twelve-year-old Dana Shannon starts to strip away wallpaper in her family’s old house, she’s unprepared for the surprise that awaits her. A hidden room—containing a human skeleton! How did such a thing get there? And why was the tiny room sealed up?

With the help of a diary found in the room, Dana learns her house was once a station on the Underground Railroad. The young woman whose remains Dana discovered was Lizbet Charles, a conductor and former slave. As the scene shifts between Dana’s world and 1856, the story of the families that lived in the house unfolds. But as pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, one haunting question remains—why did Lizbet Charles die?

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Tear Down the Wall	p. 1
No Names	p. 6
Identity: Unknown	p. 12
The Wakarusa War	p. 22
Night of the Living Bones	p. 30
The Free-State Hotel	p. 35
No Nancy Drews	p. 41
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!	p. 46
Edmund Wolcott's Castle	p. 52
Thirty Cannonballs	p. 58
The Sack of Lawrence	p. 65
Follow the Drinking Gourd	p. 72
The Conductor	p. 79
Three First Names	p. 82
Uncle Mose	p. 88
They Never Looked Back	p. 92
The View from Lizbet's Cot	p. 98
Like a Real Son	p. 101
Plumb Crazy	p. 109
Tornado!	p. 114
Wild Indigo	p. 119
Hush Puppies	p. 128
Will's Quest	p. 134
I'm Melting, I'm Melting!	p. 142
All Alone	p. 147
Hog Slaughter	p. 153
The Funeral	p. 163
The Return of Marshal Fain	p. 168
Up to the Tower	p. 174
Amen	p. 182
Written in Stone	p. 190
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