Lyons, Mary E.

Dear Ellen Bee : a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies / by Mary E. Lyons & Muriel M. Branch. - New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000. - x, 161 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.

ISBN: 0689823797 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 99042050

Subjects--Personal Names:
Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slavery--Fiction.
Abolitionists--Fiction.
Scrapbooks--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--1849-1877--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.L99556 / El 2000

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]