The Spirit and Gilly Bucket

By Maurine F. Dahlberg

Subjects: Underground railroad, Underground railroad, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Slavery, Aunts, Fiction, Children's fiction, Underground Railroad, History

Description: Children's historical novel. 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.