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Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 4, 5
Page count: 4

Author

Deborah
Hopkinson

Appeared in

Cricket Magazine Vol 23, Num 1, Sept 1995

Story Summary

Before a young slave girl escapes across the Ohio river with her boyfriend, she makes a beautiful quilt which the other slaves know is a map to help them follow the north star to freedom.