The book is about a black family that is living through the civil war. The goes to Rockwell island so that they family that they live with can get away from the war that is going on in the south. While they are on the island they learn that the island next to them is being invaded. They can hear the fighting going on the Other Island. When the army and the family leave the family that are slaves hide out in some woods and escape to the island that is free and live free on the Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

This was a moving book for me to see how this family lived after they were free and how on the island they were the first African American school and they started there own church and how they family was just happy to be free and not be told what to do.

This would be a good book to have the students to see how families felt about being slaves and how they were happy to be free. If you are teaching old students in the range of 4th or 5th grade you could have them study Roanoke Island, North Carolina more of what all was there during the civil war.