Night Boat to Freedom

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First edition, first printing (full number line). Quarto in green multicolored DJ (green-red spine); unpaged: color illus; 28 cm. Faint scratches to DJ, else fine. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780374312664

At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s. African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; History.