The spirit and Gilly Bucket
By: Maurine F. Dahlberg.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Slavery -- Fiction; Underground railroad -- Fiction; Aunts -- Fiction; Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold in the Rocky Mountains, the eleven-year-old is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befriends one of her uncle's slave girls, finds out about the Underground Railroad, and discovers that people are not always exactly as they seem.