Steal Away Home is the story of a 15-year-old escaped slave named Cecelia Reynolds, who slips away to freedom in Canada while her Kentucky-based owners holiday at Niagara Falls.

In this compelling work of narrative nonfiction, Governor General's Literary Award winner Karolyn Smardz Frost brings Cecelia's story to life. Cecelia was a teenager when she made her dangerous bid for freedom from the United States, across the Niagara River and into Canada. Escape meant that she would never see her mother or brother again. She would be cut off from the young mistress with whom she grew up, but who also owned her as a slave holder owns the body of a slave. This was a time when people could be property, when a beloved father could be separated from his wife while their children were auctioned off to the highest bidder, and the son of a white master and his black housekeeper could become a slave to his own white half-sister and brother-in-law. (From HarperCollins Canada)