Pearsall, Shelley <br/><br/>
Trouble Don't Last. 

 - New York :  Dell Yearling,  2002. 
<br/><br/> nominee for the 2006 Massachusetts Children's Book Award  Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction 
<br/><br/> Eleven year old Samuel was born a slave. One dark night in 1859 cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and together they run away from the plantation.  The journey north is frightening but if they can make it, they will be free. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-440-41811-9 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery--fiction<br/>Historical fiction<br/>Underground railroad--fiction