INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Schotter, Roni

F Is for Freedom

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by C. B. Mordan. Headstrong and imaginative, ten-year-old Manda determines to help when she discovers her parents' plan to hide a slave family escaping via the Underground Railroad. Manda eagerly befriends young Hannah, and in doing so discovers a wise and lonely girl who yearns for freedom and literacy. Readers will be engaged by the story's courageous characters and suspenseful plot, despite a few overly sentimental moments.

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