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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
241 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
55 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a tale of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship Amistad describing her capture, her witness to a mutiny, and the Supreme Court trial that prompts her return to Africa.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements." Page [4] cover.
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
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (71 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Voices for Freedom contains three stories focusing on the Underground Railroad and the 1963 Freedom March on Washington. Stories are Friend on Freedom River, Riding to Washington, and The Listeners. In Friend on Freedom River, written by Gloria Whelan, runaway slaves ask Louis to ferry them across the Detroit River to freedom in Canada. He's not sure what to do. If they are caught, it means prison for Louis. Written by Gwenyth Swain, Riding to Washington...
87) Conjure tales
Author
Pub. Date
1973
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
ix, 99 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though her parents "jumped the broom" to get married when they were slaves, now that they are living free in Philadelphia after the Civil War they plan to have a church wedding and Addy works to complete a special quilt to give them as a wedding gift.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ronald Earl King, who has been a charismatic evangelist since he was ten years old, is about to preach at a huge revival meeting on the grounds of an old plantation, where, with confusing help from the ghost of a girl he could not heal, he becomes engaged in an epic battle between good and evil.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In late 1862 young James of Murfreesboro is a proud Southerner who takes on the responsibility of providing for his newly widowed mother and younger sister by working for his neighbor alongside the field slave Eli--an experience that calls into question many of his cherished beliefs about slavery and the War." --
92) Stealing freedom
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
258 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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
Publisher
Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's summertime! Ana & Andrew travel to visit their grandparents in Savannah Georgia. While they are there, they learn that Grandma and Grandpa's church was built by slaves... with some help from an unusual source! -- Adapted from page [4] cover.
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
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Oney Judge risks everything to escape a life of slavery in the household of George and Martha Washington and to make her own way as a free black woman.
99) Lightning Time
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English