North By Night: A Story Of The Underground Railroad (2000)

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Author

Katherine Ayres

Genre

Fiction

Rating

3.9 of 5 Votes: 1

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ISBN

044022747X (ISBN13: 9780440227472)

Language

English

Publisher

yearling

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About book North By Night: A Story Of The Underground Railroad (2000)

Yet another re-read of this favorite from my teenage years. The story centers around Lucy (it's her diary), a 16 year old girl who believes and freedom and works with her parents on the underground railroad to help runaway slaves. While Lucy can be irksome at times, her story is interesting and her love life no less so. Jeremiah Strong is just the type of man we all hope for and another boy in the story (won't say names here) is just the type we all cringe around and try to avoid. While I was not as enchanted with this story as I was the first time I read it at 13 or so, I definitely think it's a nice story with some memorable characters and lessons to be learned. The story centers around runaway slaves and I often found myself cringing through the tales of their hardships. Very heart touching and heart warming story.

Great book on the surface. It is well written, easy to read, contains legitimate history, and is heartfelt. I even really began to like Lucy and could understand her youthful love triangle and angst.My issue is one that any ally would have: the same old story about the white savior. The white privilege oozing from the pages can not be ignored, in fact while William Lloyd Garrison gets a mention no real black abolitionists do.It is not that I didn't enjoy the book because I did. It is just that I recognize the flaws and they concern me enough that I wouldn't recommend this book to just anyone and I wouldn't keep it in my classroom.

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Written in Diary format, this book gives the eye view of a young girl learning that law is not necessarily right, and dealing with the conflict of feelings between love and helping those who need her. This was a book I read when I was in elementary school, and I certainly recommend it to any girl of that age. The writing is simple and easy to understand, and overall PG while teaching valuable lessons in equality. It got me interested in a topic I otherwise find rather boring. Unfortunatly trying to reread it now, I find it far too simply written for my taste, but it is a very fast read, only taking a couple hours.
—Sarah