Author: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Title: Almost to Freedom
Illustrator: Colin Bootman
Readability score: Grade 3 to Grade 5
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Historical
Theme: A doll is a witness who cannot die, with a doll you are never alone.
Primary and secondary characters: Miz Rachel, Lindy, Sally, Mr. Henry, Willa
Awards: 2003 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Date of Publication: 2003
Publishing company: Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
ISBN number: 1-57505-342-X
Sally is Lindy's doll baby. Sally goes everywhere with Lindy. She works in the cotton, she sleeps with her, and Sally even runs away with Lindy and Miz Rachel. Lindy and Miz Rachel are leaving the plantation through the Underground Railroad. They stay in a cellar of some nice white people. In the middle of the night Lindy and Miz Rachel must make a quick getaway. Sally gets left behind! She feels very lonely and she misses Lindy. One night a runaway slave girl named Willa comes. Willa takes Sally in and Sally becomes Willa's doll baby.
This story would be appropriate for an all girl's literature circle. Once the girls read the story, they will answer the following questions in a discussion. Have you ever had a doll or favorite toy that you took everywhere? What is it's name? Have you ever lost your favorite doll or toy? How did you feel when you lost it? Did you get it back? How do you think Lindy felt when she realized that Sally had been left behind? Do you think Lindy would have been glad that Sally found a new friend to take care of her?
Sally is Lindy's doll baby. Sally goes everywhere with Lindy. She works in the cotton, she sleeps with her, and Sally even runs away with Lindy and Miz Rachel. Lindy and Miz Rachel are leaving the plantation through the Underground Railroad. They stay in a cellar of some nice white people. In the middle of the night Lindy and Miz Rachel must make a quick getaway. Sally gets left behind! She feels very lonely and she misses Lindy. One night a runaway slave girl named Willa comes. Willa takes Sally in and Sally becomes Willa's doll baby.
This story would be appropriate for an all girl's literature circle. Once the girls read the story, they will answer the following questions in a discussion. Have you ever had a doll or favorite toy that you took everywhere? What is it's name? Have you ever lost your favorite doll or toy? How did you feel when you lost it? Did you get it back? How do you think Lindy felt when she realized that Sally had been left behind? Do you think Lindy would have been glad that Sally found a new friend to take care of her?
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