Overground Railroad

Overground RailroadBy: Lesa Cline Ransome Illustrator: James E. Ransome A window into a child's experience of the Great Migration from the award winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston. Climbing aboard the New York bound Silver Meteor train, Ruth Ellen embarks upon a journey toward a new life up North one she can't begin to imagine. Stop by stop, the perceptive young narrator tells her journey in poems, leaving behind the cotton fields and

whose anger simmers just below the boiling point

But when Lara fails to appear at the airport as planned

Good-bye Stacey

“it assumes no faith in the reader

the young and beautiful Isobel Payne

Spoiler alert: He always nails it

Over seven feet tall and with a newfound ability to sense future events

Stories of Dolls

she resents the limitations placed on women

the reader catches a rare and touching glimpse of the lives of three extraordinary people–two facing death and one left behind

time and death

He enters a car race