Title: Rescuing runaways
Description: ADVENTURE STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Next stop, an adventure in time travel! Join Amos Fogley, his adopted sister Kareena Leena, and their brilliant neighbor Murphy Maxwell on a trip to the year 1840. What begins as a routine visit to Washington D.C. s Museum of Black History, abruptly turns into an escapade that goes horribly wonky. Amos never imagined that pulling the lever at the Levi Coffin Exhibit would release an invisible trap door. Sucked into a vortex of rainbow swirls, shooting star-like objects, and spiraling pixie dust, your three favorite adventurers travel back in time to the pre-Civil War era. After crash landing in a Kentucky barn, Amos, Murphy and Kareena Leena quickly realize they ve arrived at a station on the Underground Railroad. Joined by two runaway slaves, they begin a quest for freedom. Together, they befuddle evil bounty hunters, romp through Chomp Swamp, and raft through Ohio River rapids proving that traveling the Underground Railroad isn t for sissies. Ages 7+
Subjects: Time travel, Juvenile fiction, Brothers and sisters, Fugitive slaves