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Dahlberg, Maurine F.

The Spirit and Gilly Bucket

234 pp. | Farrar | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-374-31677-5 $$18.00
(3) 4-6 Hoping it's temporary, Gilly stays with slave-owning relatives in Virginia while her widowed father prospects for gold in Colorado. The eleven-year-old westerner is uncomfortable with formality and appalled by slavery, vulnerable, and a bit clueless (taking quite a while to see her aunt's role in the Underground Railroad). Readers will enjoy being a half-step ahead of Gilly, which is one of the many satisfactions in this historical novel.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

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