Come Morning

by Leslie Davis Guccione

Book Overview

Twelve-year-old Freedom, the son of a freed slave living in Delaware in the early 1850s, takes over his father's work in the Underground Railroad when his father disappears. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876148925
• ISBN13: 9780876148921
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8

Customer Reviews

This book is long but rewarding

I'm [...]. I read this book and it is very exciting. I like the book because it is adventurous. I wasn't sure how it would end, and that kept me reading more. It's the longest book I've read and it has 120 pages. For kids, you should stop at the wagon wheel pictures in the middle of the chapters and review what you have read. There are some old fashioned words that are hard to understand, so you might have to ask a grown up or look it up in the dictionary.

This was an exciting and powerful story.

I read this book before Mrs. Guccione came to visit my fifth grade class. I have read other books of this kind, but this was by far the best! Free and Liza show courage that many of us have never had to use and probably never will. I was very happy that white people in the story were helping the slaves, and not just free blacks. It was very well written especially since the author isn't black and didn't live during the Civil War time period. She had to imagine what Free, Liza, Pap, and the slaves felt. That is very hard to do, and she did it fantastically! I recommend this book to all kinds of readers. It's worth it!