If I Just Had Two Wings

Thirteen-year-old Phoebe longs to leave life on an Alabama plantation. Haunted by dreams of flying through cotton rows and guided by songs and stories, she and a neighbour, Liney, plan a risky nighttime escape.

With Liney's two small children, the group follows clues embedded in folk songs to the first safe house on the Underground Railroad. Their journey north depends on quick thinking, small kindnesses and the thin chain of safe havens—while pursuit and hostile terrain test them at every turn.

Winner of the Silver Birch Award (2002) and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, and chosen by the New York Public Library for Books for the Teen Age (2005), the novel balances lyrical imagery with historical detail for young readers and teens.

• Themes: freedom, resilience, songs and folklore
• Recommended for readers of historical YA fiction

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