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Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
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English
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In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.
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Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
114 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
13) Caleb's choice
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Language
English
Description
While living in Texas in 1858, fourteen-year-old Caleb faces a dilemma in deciding whether or not to assist fugitive slaves in their run for freedom.
Author
Series
Young Americans volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Will, the son of a Williamsburg goaler, suspects that a captured runaway slave is planning to escape. Should he tell his father, despite his own sympathy to the slave?
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1800s, a slave boy dreams of escaping to freedom while on a journey from Missouri to the gold fields of Kansas Territory with his master's n'er-do-well son.
Author
Series
Riverboat adventures volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 21 cm.
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 throught the Underground Railroad.
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
145 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the years before the Civil War, Bright discovers that her parents are providing a safehouse for the Underground Railroad and helps to save a runaway slave named Marcus.
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