Message in the Sky

By Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Subjects: Canada, fiction, Underground railroad, Underground railroad, fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Pigeons, fiction, Homing pigeons, Slavery, Fugitive slaves, Pigeons, Fiction, Children's fiction, Underground Railroad, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.