Sailing to freedom

By Martha Bennett Stiles

Subjects: United states, history, fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, Boats and boating, Slavery, fiction, Uncles, Slavery, Fugitive slaves, Fiction, Children's fiction, History;, Juvenile fiction, United states, fiction, History, Monkeys as pets, Monkeys, fiction, Capuchin monkeys

Description: Twelve-year-old Ray is in trouble from the moment he and his monkey, Allie, board the Newburyport Beauty. But when bounty hunters come looking for a runaway slave, it’s Ray and Allie who must save hideaway, crew, vessel and all. Meanwhile that runaway’s 11- year-old brother, Ogun, makes his desperate way from Carolina to Canada on foot.