Summary:  

Laura had gone to live at her aunt and uncle's house in Virginia after her mother died.  After she moves back home with her dad, she overhears her brother helping a runaway slave to escape into Canada.  She realizes that her house is a part of the Underground Railroad that she has heard so much about.  Being raised in Virginia with her aunt and uncle, she believes that anyone who helps a slave runaway is breaking the law.   After she meets Martin Paige, the 12-year old runaway slave, and hears a different perspective, she realizes that she is now involved.    

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