A window into a child\'s experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston .
Stop by stop, the perceptive young narrator tells her journey in poems, leaving behind the cotton fields and distant Blue Ridge mountains..
As she climbs aboard the New York bound Silver Meteor train, Ruth Ellen embarks upon a journey toward a new life up North-- one she can\'t begin to imagine.
A window into a child\'s experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston