Dear Austin

By Elvira Woodruff

Subjects: Underground railroad, Underground railroad, fiction, African Americans, Boys, fiction, Country life, Slavery, Fugitive slaves, Fiction, Letters, Children's fiction, Underground Railroad, Juvenile fiction

Description: Dear Austin is a book about Eleven year old Levi and his friends Jupiter and Possum, in Pennsylvania. Throuout the book Levi is writing letters to his older brother Austin. Levi lives with Miss Amelia, Miss Amelia takes care of Levi becuase Levi's mother passed away while giving birth to him. A while later Darcy, Jupiter's sister gets kidnapped by slave cachers. Levi and Jupiter leave Pennsylvania and start serching for Darcy, but they have no luck.