title: Freedom Train
author:  Evelyn Coleman 
description: <B>Evelyn Coleman</B>'s books include <i>To Be a Drum</i>, <i>White Socks Only</i>, <i>The Riches of Oseola McCarty</i>, a Smithsonian Notable Book and a Carter G. Woodson Honor Book, and <i>Born in Sin</i>. Ms. Coleman lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she received the Atlanta Mayor's fellowship for achievement in children's literature. Visit Evelyn online at evelyncoleman.com.
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  Rescuing Colorado
  
  
  by RaeAnne Hadley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The steady rocking and clickety clack of the wheels on the train was lulling
  her to sleep but the laughter from the eating cars snapped Colorado back to
  the present. She couldn’t allow herself to get caught with her guard down; not
  this close to freedom.
  
  
  She had been worried that her father would have his thugs waiting for her in
  St. Louis but if he did, she didn’t see them nor did they see her. She safely
  made it onto the train and into her compartment with none the wiser. Now she
  was less than thirty minutes from getting to Denver and she felt the
  excitement build. Her father’s reach didn’t extend to Colorado, the state she
  was named after, so she allowed the fear and tension to leave her body. She
  was free.
  
  
  The train pulled into the station and she grabbed her knapsack, anxious to get
  off of the train and start her new life; though she wasn’t sure what that was
  going to be yet. 