Alta Winchester knows her parents' secret: they hide runaway slaves in the cellar. Alta keeps quiet about the Black men, women, and children who flee to her house on their way to freedom up north. Yet when someone reveals her parents' latest runaway, Pa's fate lies in the hands of the town judge. Note: This book is published in Noah Text(R), a proprietary evidenced-based method of presenting text. Noah Text(R) highlights critical word patterns to help struggling readers, striving readers, those with dyslexia, and English language-learners read with increased fluency, accuracy, stamina, and confidence, while building reading skill.