Steal Away

Name: Steal Away
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Jennifer Armstrong
ISBN: 9781470353940

Author: Jennifer Armstrong

Narrator: Barbara Caruso, Lynne Thigpen, Christina Moore

Unabridged: 5 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/22/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

In 1896, Mary Emmons is surprised when her grandmother takes her along to visit an old friend in Toronto named Bethlehem. Mary has led a sheltered life in New York City, far from hardship and danger. But when Mary meets the ancient woman, the personal history she shares removes the blinders from Mary's eyes, forcing the girl to recognize prejudice and injustice for the first time. As a young girl, Suzanna, Mary's grandmother, is sent to live with her uncle in the South. Seeing slaves for the first time, and the horrible way they are treated, Suzanna decides to run away, back to her home in Vermont. When she leaves, though, she is not alone. Disguised as a boy, the young slave Bethlehem escapes with her. As the story of these two brave young women is told through alternating chapters, they share the dangers they face on the perilous journey from Virginia to freedom. Award-winning narrators Christina Moore, Barbara Caruso, and Lynne Thigpen masterfully capture each riveting conflict and difficult decision.

About Jennifer Armstrong

Jennifer Armstrong
is the author of over fifty books for children from kindergarten through high
school. Best known for writing historical fiction, she has also been successful
in creating picture books, easy readers, chapter books, young adult novels, and
nonfiction. Armstrong is the winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding
Nonfiction for Shipwreck at the Bottom of
the World. Many of her books have been designated as Notable Books by the
American Library Association and the International Reading Association.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kaylin on March 02, 2018

This was really good. I would recommend this if you like slavery. It is about an orphan and her slave. The orphan helps the slave get away and she goes along to. The book is Historical Fiction and very good.......more

Goodreads review by Diane on October 14, 2019

Absolutely wonderful book! It has been in my classroom library for years and I finally read it. I'm surprised it hasn't been used by schools to teach not only literature but about the history of running away from slavery too. The human feelings and event descriptions were so genuine that an honest r......more

Goodreads review by Danica on February 04, 2025

Steal Away 206 pages Jennifer Armstrong 1992 Orchard Books Historical fiction 0-531-05983-9 $15.95 Steal Away is a historical fiction book by Jennifer Armstrong about two young girls who run away from a farm in the South to live free in the North during the Civil War and then 41 years later tell their sto......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on May 18, 2017

Steal Away is a historical fiction book by the author Jennifer Armstrong. This book is about an orphan girl named Susannah and a slave named Bethlehem. Susannah’s parents died and she had to move in with her uncle. She used to live in Vermont which was a free state of slaves. But had to move to Virg......more

Goodreads review by E.G. on July 18, 2023

Another childhood reread I've been working through lately. This one was never my favorite, and that hasn't changed after reading it again, but it is a solid little story with good moral themes. Overall, I just wish that there was more. More character development, more exploration of the themes, and......more