The House of Dies DrearThe House of Dies Drear takes place in 1968. Thomas Small, a 13-year-old boy, moves with his family into a house that was once part of the Underground Railroad that is in Ohio. His father,
Mr. Small, tells Thomas that the caretaker of the house is Mr. Pluto. People think he is the devil because Mr. Pluto rides an old buggy driven by two horses and because Pluto is the roman name for Hades the god of the underworld. Once they move into the house, strange and scary things begin to happen. |
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Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman mini-biography
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Reliving the Underground Railroad today
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Follow the Drinking Gourd from WVPT on Vimeo. Follow the Drinking Gourd from READING RAINBOW
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