Overground Railroad

by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Book Overview

A window into a child's experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston.

Climbing aboard the New York bound Silver Meteor train, Ruth Ellen embarks upon a journey toward a new life up North-- one she can't begin to imagine. Stop by stop, the perceptive young narrator tells her journey in poems, leaving behind the cotton fields and distant Blue Ridge mountains...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823438732
• ISBN13: 9780823438730
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.1" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2