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A Window to the World
by Eunice Boeve
Product Group: Book
Publisher: PublishAmerica (2004-07-26)
ISBN: 1413732127
EAN: 9781413732122
Paperback: 110 pages
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
SKU: 080611323
Condition: Fine
Comments: 1413732127 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A twig snapped underfoot and the shadowy form of an owl flew past on silent wings. Close by, so close it raised the hair on my scalp, something barked. I whipped around, visions of slave-hunting dogs leaped at us from the brush. “What was that!”“A fox, Miss.”“Oh.” I knew the bark of a fox. I’d heard it before. Just not on a dark night when I was running through the woods with a fugitive slave.Annie Duncan’s pa disappears on his way to the California gold fields and is presumed dead. A widower begins courting Ma. Annie and her brothers find little to like about the man, why he even believed in slavery! When a fugitive slave arrives on the Duncan farm, the family conspires to hide him, not only from the slave-catchers, but also from Ma’s soon-to-be husband.
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Customer Reviews
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Story-telling at its finest
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-08-07
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
A Window to the World
For a twelve-year-old Annie Duncan has a lot to worry about. What if her Pa never comes back from looking for gold in California? What if her Ma then marries "Bug Eyes," Mr. Snell, who is bossy and thinks it's okay to own slaves? What if her big brother Patrick can't get to law school or her little brother Jackson doesn't recover from his illness? Her biggest concern of all is whether she can help Henry, the run-away slave, when the slave catchers come knocking at the door of their remote West Virginia farm? Her only chance is for them to climb through her bedroom window her Pa built her before he left.
Author Eunice Boeve tells a good story with a nicely laid-out plot and plenty of action to keep the reader turning the pages to find out what happens next in the likeable Duncan family. The reader will also be able to identify with protagonist Annie Duncan as she is not only brave and intelligent, but she is also compassionate and polite.
History, especially the fate of fugitive slaves after The Compromise of 1850, is interwoven into the story so that it is absorbed with ease. That is the mark of historical fiction at its best. This young adult book is highly recommended for readers 10 years of age and up.
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