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Morning Star
Morning Star
Morning Star
Judith Plaxton
Flower, her parents and her baby brother have escaped from the plantation where they were kept as slaves and are making their way north to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Their journey is dangerous and often desperate, as they are helped and sheltered by some, and hunted by others. Flower's courage helps her family through illness, recapture and to escape again to safety. Interwoven with Flower's narrative is the story of Felicia, a young girl living over 150 years later in Canada in a small community that was once an end-point of the Underground Railroad. Felicia, one of the few black children in her school, is researching her ancestry for a class project. As she talks to her mother and grandmother and learns about her ancestors' struggles and successes, their bravery gives her the strength to confront the racism of a bullying classmate.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Historical Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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Morning Star is story in two times told from two points of view: Flower, a slave on a plantation in the 1800s, and Felicia, Flower's descendant living in modern times. Twelve-year-old Flower has been working hard on a plantation ever since she was born there. She lives with her mother father, and her baby brother in a cramped cabin. One morning, Flower's parents wake her early and escape into the surrounding forests with help from a fellow slave.

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