Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad

by Henry Cole

Book Overview

A young girl's courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story.

When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn, she is at once startled and frightened. But the stranger's fearful eyes weigh upon her conscience, and she must make a difficult choice.Will she have the courage to help him?Unspoken gifts of humanity unite the girl and the runaway as they each face a journey: one following the North Star, the other following her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545399971
• ISBN13: 9780545399975
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.2" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

gently done drawings to a story from young white girl's perspective

a short tale that hopefully will bring a lot of questions as well as a child's own version of the story.