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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Reveals the hidden truth about the Underground Railroad and black Americans' struggle for freedom. Before the Civil War, there was a crack team of abolitionists who used quilts and signal lanterns to guide enslaved people to freedom. RIGHT? WRONG! The truth is, the Underground Railroad wasn't very organized, and most freedom seekers were on their own.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ellen and William Craft were two of the few slaves to ever escape from the Deep South. Their first escape took them to Philadelphia, then on to Boston pursued by slave hunters, and finally 5000 miles across the ocean to England, where they were able to settle peacefully.
9) Flying free
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the creators of Voices from the Oregon Trail and Colonial Voices, an unflinching story of two young runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, told in their voices and those who helped and hindered them It's the 1850s and enslaved siblings Jeb and Mattie are about the make a break for freedom. The pair travel north from Maryland to New Bedford, Massachusetts along the Underground Railroad. Each spread tells about a step of their journey through...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When he was eleven years old, George Washington inherited ten human beings. The life of the first president of the United States has been well chronicled, but the lives of the people of color he owned--the people who sustained his plantation and were buried there in unmarked graves--have not. Using... primary source material and photographs of historcal artifacts...[the author] sheds light on the lives of several of the men and women enslaved by...
Author
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.
"When Jesse went down to the marsh on that fateful day, he expected to find a turtle for terrapin soup. Instead, he comes across a dying slave woman who makes Jesse promise he’ll take her young son, Perry, to a relative in Baltimore. Aiding and abetting a slave is against the law, and it also goes...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the mid-eighteen hundreds, while serving as cook's apprentice on his uncle's schooner with his pet monkey, Allie, twelve-year-old Ray discovers that they are transporting a fugitive slave to the free north.
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