This is a wonderful biography about the life and tribulations of Harriet Tubman. It talks about how she escaped from her abusive owners when she was young. And how she later returned to help free her family and others. She was a very brave woman who earned many peoples respect and love.

I read this book to my third grade class and they loved it. The class thought that it was very harsh the way that Harriet was treated and beaten. But they all wanted to read it themselves when I was finished because they found it so interesting.

This would be a good book choice to have the children write an autobiography of themselves in the way that they portray their own lives.