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Jayhawker

by Patricia Beatty

FictionHistoryJuvenile fictionSlaverySpiesUnderground railroadUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865Underground Railroad

In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.

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Book data: Open Library