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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 21cm
Language
English
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
22) River runs deep
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption--and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages : map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. Then Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The son of a blacksmith and slave learns that his father is using the rhythm of his hammering to communicate with travelers on the Underground Railroad"--
Author
Series
Freedom seekers volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations map ; 21 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Journey of an abused twelve-year-old white girl and an escaped slave girl who run away together and form a bond of friendship while seeking freedom"--
Author
Series
Freedom seekers volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1857, while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, thirteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father and tries to reunite the fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the adventures of two 13-year-olds, Katie McEachron and her friend Florence Mather, who experience an exciting summer in 1852 Wisconsin as the plank road that runs by their homes brings mysterious strangers to their dinner tables and the plight of runaway slaves to their consciences.
36) Midnight rescue
Author
Series
Freedom seekers volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1857, having arrived in Minnesota Territory on her father's steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby continues to harbor the runaway slave boy Jordan while worrying about a fugitive who has escaped from the local prison.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
HUCKLEBERRY FINN: After being kidnapped by his drunken father, Huck heads down the Mississippi with his buddy Jim and have many adventures. THE PROUD REBEL: After John Chandler's son goes mute following a tragedy, John searches for a doctor who can help him. Before he finds one, he and his family must work off a debt using their talented sheepdog, Lance. When a doctor is found, John has no money to pay for help for his son and must decide whether...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
221 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In her dreams, Phoebe twirls through rows of sea island cotton as a white dress blows around her knees like a breeze. As she dances, she loses all memory of being born a slave on an Alabama plantation. She lifts up her feet and flies high above the fields, as light as air. Before her a single white star shines. Thirteen-year-old Phoebe has always dreamed of leaving her life as a slave behind. She has heard whispers about a secret path to freedom,...