Brady's Character
Brady has a habit of doing this too much, which makes his father hesitant to trust him with secrets.
What is talking/gossiping/blabbing?
This is the name given to the secret network of houses and people helping enslaved people escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This is Brady’s best friend who often gets him into trouble or distracts him with talk of adventure.
Who is Range?
This is the primary setting of the book, where Brady lives with his parents and works in the fields while trying to figure out his father's secrets.
What is the Minton Farm.
When Brady finds out the Sermon House is a "station," he has to decide whether to tell his friend Range or keep it a secret. He chooses this.
What is keep it a secret?
Brady lives in this state, which was a "free state" but sat right on the border of the slave state of Maryland.
What is Pennsylvania?
These were the "stations" on the Underground Railroad were runaway slaves could hide safely.
What are Safe Houses?
This group of people, often seen as "villains" in the book, traveled North to find and kidnap runaway slaves for a reward.
Who are Slave Catchers?
The first place Brady was introduced to the Underground Railroad, alibet, he did not understand.
What is Drover Hull's place?
This terrifying event happens to the Minton’s barn, which many believe was an act of "warning" or revenge by those who supported slavery.
What is a fire?
What is burned down?
This is the name of Brady’s father, who is a humble minister but secretly a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Reverend Minton?
These are the people committed to helping runaway slaves escape.
Who are Conductors?
A conductor, who is a traveling clock fixer, visits from time to time and gives Brady a headache over the arithmetic.
Who is Mr. Parley Potter?
The "Station" Brady’s family runs is located in this specific county in Pennsylvania.
What is Washington County?
This suspicious character, is pro slavery, aims to run for sherif.
Who is Bill Williams?
Brady feels this specific emotion when he discovers the hidden room in his father’s church—a mix of surprise and a heavy sense of duty.
What is Awe/Responsibility?
This is the name of the runaway slave boy that Brady eventually has to help save.
Who is Moss?
This character is a neighbor who is strongly in favor of abolition, representing the conflict even within Brady's own town.
Who is Mr. McKain?
Brady is amazed to find Drover Hull is a conductor and staying in these, close to Uncle Will's place?
When his father is injured and cannot make the trip, Brady must take his place and drive this vehicle to move the Moss to the next station.
What is the Road Wagon?
What is the Wagon?
This 11-letter word describes Brady’s growth throughout the book as he learns to control his tongue.
What is Self-Control?
This brave conductor is a former enslaved man who uses the clever disguise of crutches to travel unnoticed while leading others to freedom.
Who is Tar Adams?
This 10-letter word describes someone like Reverend Minton who wants to completely end slavery.
What is an Abolitionist?
Many slaves were trying to reach this country, where they would be truly free from the reach of U.S. laws.
What is Canada?
This person is the one Brady saw running away after the barn fire and found his knife, as proof he started it.
Who is Laban Williams