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Language
English
Description
A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Huck escapes from the lonely cabin in which his drunken, brutal father had imprisoned him; on Jackson's island he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together they float down the Mississippi River on a raft, occasionally stopping at the banks. In these brief episodes Huck participates in the lives of others, witnessing corruption, moral decay, and intellectual impoverishment. He learns from Jim of the dignity and worth of a human being.
Author
Series
Riverboat adventures volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1857 twelve-year-old Libby joins her father aboard the Christina and proves that she can be trusted to assist in the escape of a fugitive slave.
4) Soul catcher
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Augustus Cain faces a past he wants to forget, a present without prospect or fortune, and an uncertain future marred by the loss of his most prized possession: the horse that has been his working companion for years. He is also a man haunted by a terrible skill-the ability to track people who don't want to be found.
Rosetta is a runaway slave fueled by the passion and determination only a mother can feel. She bears the scars-inside and out-of a...
Author
Series
Riverboat adventures volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Libby finds comfort in God's love as she faces the dangers of trying to help a fugitive slave escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this intriguing novel, master quilter Sylvia Compson comes across an heirloom quilt that muddles her heritage. She's always believed her ancestors were active in the Underground Railroad-but perhaps she's been mistaken.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Letters between two young girls, one from Goose Creek, Virginia, and her friend living in Philadelphia, chronicle their involvement in helping an escaped slave travel via the Underground Railroad to join her father in Canada.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
Author
Series
Bells of Lowell volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Book 3 of Bells of Lowell. Timid yet alluring Daughtie Winfield finds herself in a precarious position when the new doctor casts his favor upon her. Though flattered by his attention, she is drawn to Liam Donohue, a local Irish artisan. As Daughtie and Liam work together to help runaway slaves, their friendship blossoms. But her work in the mills is threatened when a downturn in profits causes the Associates to decrease wages--resulting in plans for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The events surrounding the Underground Railroad did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of a slave, a slave owner, and a conductor on the railroad as readers act out scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as readers engage and read aloud. This book includes a table of...
12) Freedom run
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family Pub
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jack and Matt use the Imagination Station to travel back in time again to the pre-Civil War South, where they plan to carry out their promise to help two slaves escape through the Underground Railroad.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--
14) Veil of pearls
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Be swept away to Charleston of 1811, a city bustling with immigrants like Adalia, who is a runaway slave so light-skinned that no one guesses her past. Terrified her secret will be discovered, she settles into a quiet life making herbal remedies for a local doctor. But when Morgan, the handsome son of a prominent family, sweeps her into his glamorous world-a world in which the truth about Adalia's heritage would ruin them both-suspicions and petty...
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Addy, 1864 volume 2
Addy classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Addy 1864 volume 2
Addy classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Addy 1864 volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Having Poppa home fills Addy's heart with happiness, and moving to a boarding house brings a new special friend--one who encourages Addy to always stay hopeful for the future. Then Addy enjoys the victory of having her idea chosen for a fair fundraiser, where a friendship is born, and the answer to a riddle brings a wonderful surprise. But will the rest of Addy's family be reunited before the New Year?
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Underground Railroad was used by people escaping enslavement in the South. This system of passages and safe houses helped people reach freedom in the Northern United States or Canada. Did you know science played a role in the Underground Railroad? Learn how people used the night sky to find their way north and much more!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth work to protect runaway slave Sally as they travel by train with President-elect Abraham Lincoln through northern New York state in 1861 aboard The Lincoln Special, getting assistance from Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and her son Willie along the way.
18) Path of freedom
Author
Series
Quilts of love volume 3
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
With only a quilt to guide them, Quakers Flora Saferight and Bruce Millikan reluctantly agree to put their differences aside to safely transport a pregnant slave couple on the Underground Railroad.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"No one knows where the term "Underground Railroad" came from--there were no trains or tracks, only abolitionist "conductors" who helped bring an estimated 100,000 slaves to freedom through elaborate routes that included "stations," safe houses where fugitives could rest before moving on, and a system of codes and signals used to identify friend from foe. Including real stories from the "Railroad," What Was the Underground Railroad? will capture young...
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