Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice

The loss of liberty may imprison a person, but it does not confine their mind.

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Dreaming is great, but thinking big thoughts alone will not build a business, pay your bills or make you into the person you know in your heart you can be.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me