Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky
- ISBN-10
- 0517885433
- ISBN-13
- 9780517885437
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Dragonfly Books
- Author
- Faith Ringgold
Description
An imaginative blend of fact and fantasy depicts the escape from slavery as Cassie Louise Lightfoot encounters the great Harriet Tubman and a strange train in the sky. Reprint.
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