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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[40] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
volumes cm
Language
English
Description
"Through a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book debunks myths about the Underground Railroad and Black Americans' struggle for freedom"--
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows Harriet Tubman's spiritual journey to freedom as she, leaving her family behind, escaped from slavery and led many others to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.
