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Dear Canada: A Desperate Road to Freedom (Dear Canada)
by
Karleen Bradford (Goodreads Author)
Julia May and her family have done the unthinkable. They have fled from their life of slavery on a tobacco plantation in Virginia and are making their way north, on foot, where they have heard that slaves can be free. The journey takes them through swamps, travelling by night and hiding by day. The diary that Julia May keeps is another act of bravery. Learning to read and...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
June 2009
by Scholastic Canada
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Review by: Melissa Murphy (SPOILER!!!)
What was your least favourite part in the book?
My least favourite part was the beginning. It was very boring. Even when they where running from their masters. When she was writing her diary entries they where short and with no date on them. She continuing on like that for until they got to the safe place. They where also short because she was not supposed to know how to read or write.
Did the book fulfil your expectation?
The book indeed fulfilled my expectati...more
What was your least favourite part in the book?
My least favourite part was the beginning. It was very boring. Even when they where running from their masters. When she was writing her diary entries they where short and with no date on them. She continuing on like that for until they got to the safe place. They where also short because she was not supposed to know how to read or write.
Did the book fulfil your expectation?
The book indeed fulfilled my expectati...more
Eleven-year-old Julia May is more fortunate than most slaves in the southern states during the Civil War. As a young girl, her owner assigned her to be the personal slave and companion of his young daughter, Miss Marissa, and so Julia May didn‘t have to endure working in the fields of the plantation. Julia May learned to read and write while listening to Marissa’s lessons. Marissa didn’t care that her slave was educated, and kept Julia May's secret so that Julia May could help her with her schoo...more
Julia May Jackson was born a slave in Virginia just before the American Civil War. She is slave to the masters daughter and unbeknownst to anyone, has learned to read and write. Three older siblings have been sold, and there are rumors that her older brother, Thomas, will soon be next. Late one dark night her parents wake her, tell her to grab her things and keep quiet. It is the beginning of the family’s journey along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. Julia May keeps a journal of t...more
It gives you a real life prsepteve of the horiblle slaveriy that had had happened. What a child feels esacaping the slaverliy
Sep 28, 2012
Shanelle
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who likes to read about Canadian history
Another book from the Dear Canada series, A Desperate Road to Freedom focusses on the Underground Railroad that helped save many lives. This book follows the story of Julia May Jackson and her family as they escaped from their past lives as slaves to the new world, Canada.
My favourite dear Canada book
loved it!!!!!de
Awesome book. I will not write a review since I always give out spoilers, lol.
Not bad. Not as much focus on the Underground Railroad as the title would have you believe, however. They were off that part by p. 46. I was expecting more emphasis on that.
Really depressing but really interesting.
May 14, 2013
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