The gospel truth
By: Caroline Pignat
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Markham, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780889954939; 9781552443491
Subjects: Child slaves; Underground Railroad; Juvenile fiction; Canadian Authors; Slavery; Fiction; Underground railroad; Historical fiction; Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Slaves; Novels in verse
Description: Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen. She sees how the other slaves are treated -- the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasn't seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago. But Phoebe is trying to learn words and how to read and when she is asked to show the master's Canadian visitor, Doctor Bergman, where he can find warblers and chickadees she starts to see things differently. And Doctor Bergman has more in mind that just drawing the local birds. Phoebe's friend Shad works on the plantation as well -- but mostly he worries about his brother Will. His brother is the last member of his family and he is determined to escape from the master and the tobacco plantation. He has already been caught and beaten more than once. And the stories about life in Canada can't be true, can they? How does a man survive without the master there taking care of everything?--publisher.
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.

Book Award: CLA Book of the Year for Children Finalist, 2015

Governor General's Literary Award Winner, 2015 (Canada Council for the Arts).