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    Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad: Letters from the Underground Railroad
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    Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad: Letters from the Underground Railroad

    By Elvira Woodruff and Nancy Carpenter

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    Now in paperback! 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 24, 2008
    ISBN9780307555533
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    Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad: Letters from the Underground Railroad
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    Elvira Woodruff

    Elvira Woodruff is the author of many popular books for children. In the many years she has been writing both picture books and novels for middle grade readers her work has won a number of children’s state awards such as the Florida Sunshine State Award, the Maud Lovelace Award, The Carolyn W. Field Award, the Mark Twain Book Award, and The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award. Elvira was born in Raritan, New Jersey and has lived for many years with her family in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania.

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    • 4/5
      A cute story written in letters from Levi to his brother Austin who is traveling on the Oregon trail.Levi keeps writing his brother to tell him about all that is going on in their home town of Sudbury Pennsylvania. The trouble that Levi and his friends Possum and Jupiter get into.Great book for any young reader.