Though ever cautious and fearful of the ubiquitous soldiers, she is largely unaware of the extent of the danger around her the Resistance kept even its participants safer by telling them as little as possible, and Annemarie has never been told that her older sister Lise died in its service. The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction ( Rabble Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction-a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943.įive years younger than Lisa in Carol Matas' Lisa's War (1989), Annemarie Johansen has, at 10, known three years of Nazi occupation. (historical note, historical facts, further reading and useful web sites) (Historical fiction. Jenny proves a resilient heroine and her story is jam-packed with the stuff of history. Jenny’s coming-of-age is played out against the backdrop of the Fugitive Slave Act, the California Gold Rush, the Dred Scott Decision and the Civil War, providing a unique perspective on this troubled historical period. In 1858, the family immigrates to Canada with other former slaves and settles on Salt Spring Island where the teenage Jenny meets new challenges and a future husband. Estes dies in childbirth, forcing ten-year-old Jenny to take her place. When Jenny is seven, her father purchases the family’s freedom and equips a Conestoga wagon to carry them over the Oregon Trail to start a new life in California. Born a slave in Missouri in 1844, independent Jenny Estes dreams of freedom and thrives on stories about the Underground Railroad.
A former slave with a yen for freedom becomes a pioneer girl in this historical chronicle inspired by experiences of an African-American woman who settled on Salt Spring Island in 1860.
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