If I Just Had Two Wings - Schwartz, Virginia Frances
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Born on a plantation in Alabama, thirteen-year-old Phoebe, has always dreamed of leaving her life as a slave behind. She has heard whispering about a secret path to freedom, but doesn't think about her own escape until she starts picking cotton next to a strong young woman named Liney. One night, Phoebe, Liney, and Liney's two young daughters decide they can wait no longer, and they run away under the cover of darkness. Following clues in the songs and stories they have heard for years, they elude the man who enslaved them and reach the first stop on the underground railroad. There, they find…mehr

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Born on a plantation in Alabama, thirteen-year-old Phoebe, has always dreamed of leaving her life as a slave behind. She has heard whispering about a secret path to freedom, but doesn't think about her own escape until she starts picking cotton next to a strong young woman named Liney. One night, Phoebe, Liney, and Liney's two young daughters decide they can wait no longer, and they run away under the cover of darkness. Following clues in the songs and stories they have heard for years, they elude the man who enslaved them and reach the first stop on the underground railroad. There, they find Jake, a young man who escaped from their plantation earlier that night. They decide that it would be safest to travel together on the treacherous journey north. Chased across the country by slave catchers, the group finds refuge in the homes and barns of the kind-hearted conductors along the route. Phoebe motivates the others with her dreams of freedom, and she and Jake begin to fall in love. They finally reach Canada, having survived separation, severe illness, and the harsh cold of the North. As Phoebe runs across the white, frozen land, she feels her feet lift from the ground. She has flown to freedom at last, just as she has always dreamed.
In her dreams, Phoebe twirls through rows of sea island cotton as a white dress blows around her knees like a breeze. As she dances, she loses all memory of being born a slave on an Alabama plantation. She lifts up her feet and flies high above the fields, as light as air. Before her a single white star shines. Thirteen-year-old Phoebe has always dreamed of leaving her life as a slave behind. She has heard whispers about a secret path to freedom, and she has seen what can happen to those who take it and fail. But freedom means more to Phoebe than anything, and when she meets Liney, a strong young woman who picks cotton next to her, they form a plan to escape together. One night, Poebe, Liney, and Liney's two small children flee under cover of darkness. Following clues from the songs and stories they have heard, the runaways elude slave catchers and reach the first stop on the Underground Railroad. It is only one safe house in a chain that leads all the way north to Canada. But between them and freedom, lie miles and miles of unfriendly country and dangers too horrible to imagine. Winner, Silver Birch Award, 2002 Winner, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction A 2005 New York Public Library selection for Books for the Teen Age
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Virginia Frances Schwartz is the author of a number of historical books for older readers, including Initiation, Send One Angel Down, and If I Just Had Two Wings, winner of the Silver Birch Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. She lives in New York City.