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English
Description
"No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only 'conductors' who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about 'passengers' on the 'Railroad,' this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground...
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
Series
Language
English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
Author
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.
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.
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
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Will Spencer leaves home to become a peddler, but gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to go to Kentucky, steal two slaves, and help them reach their brother in Canada.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old slave girl begins writing in a journal where she documents her journey via the Underground Railroad from Alexandria, Virginia, to freedom in St. Catharines, Canada.
17) Steal away home
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
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.
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