| 書 名： | Trouble don't last | | 作 者： | PearsallShelley | | 出 版 項： | New York：Dell Yearling, 2003, c2002 | | 稽 核 項： | 237 p.：map；20 cm | | ＩＳＢＮ： | 0440418119(pbk.：新台幣198 | | ＩＳＢＮ： | 9780440418115 | | 附 註 項： | A Dell Yearling Book | | 附 註 項： | Includes bibliographical references (p. 236) | | 附 註 項： | Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escapeto Canada via the Underground Railroad. Eleven-year-oldSamuel was born as Master Hackler's slave, and working theKentucky farm is the only life he's ever known, until onedark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky oldHarrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and,together, they run. The journey north seems much morefrightening than Master Hackler ever was, and Samuel's notsure what freedom means aside from running, hiding, andstarving. But as they move from one refuge to the next onthe Underground Railroad, Samuel uncovers the secret ofhis own past, and future. And old Harrison begins to seepast a whole lifetime of hurt to the promise of a newlife???and a poignant reunion, in Canada. In aheartbreaking and hopeful first novel, Shelley Pearsalltells a suspenseful, emotionally charged story of freedomand family. Trouble Don't Last includes a historical noteand map | | 標 題 項： | Fugitive slaves--Fiction | | 標 題 項： | Slavery--Fiction | | 標 題 項： | African Americans--Fiction | | 標 題 項： | Race relations--Fiction | | 標 題 項： | Underground railroad--Juvenile fiction | | 標 題 項： | Old age--Fiction | | |
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