In this companion novel to Dear Levi, told in letters,11-year-old Levi helps a young African American in a harrowing flight for freedom along the Underground Railroad.
 
Slavery was abolished throughout the United States in 1865. Before that, the Underground Railroad operated to help people escape slavery. It was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers from Southern US to escape to the parts of the United States and Canada where slavery was abolished.