Lois Ruby

Steal Away Home

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While her family is restoring an old house in Lawrence, Kansas, 12-year-old Dana discovers the diary of a Quaker woman whose family sheltered runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad.

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Produktdetails

• Aladdin Historical Fiction
• Verlag: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 130mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780689824357
• ISBN-10: 0689824351
• Artikelnr.: 22065657

Autorenporträt

Lois Ruby is the author of several novels, including Steal Away Home, which was named an IRA Young Adults’ Choice and a Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC). Before she turned to writing, she was a young adult librarian for the Dallas Public Library. In her spare time, she serves on the board of Inter-Faith Inn Homeless Shelter in Wichita, Kansas, and sometimes teaches minicourses to seventh and eighth graders. "The place I feel most comfortable," she says, "is among teenagers, laughing." The mother of three sons, she lives in Wichita with her husband, Thomas.