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Series
Publisher
Distributed to the school and library market by The Child's World
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
In West Virginia in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but never imagining that she will board it so soon.
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 4
Publisher
A Voice In The World Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
PB.
Description
Dark clouds and chaos descend lower upon America as the war rages around them, threatening all they hold dear. Carrie & Robert are once more pulled apart, and Carrie finds herself the target of a hostile group of men determined to stop her from providing medical care to black residents of Richmond. How long can she continue to save other people's lives at the risk of her own? Riots erupt in the North, threatening those she loves, and she is pulled...
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 2
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Maria Isabella Boyd's success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies...
44) Freedom for Addy
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Addy Walker escapes a Southern plantation during the turbulent Civil War. Meet Addy as she and her mother make a daring journey from slavery to freedom in 1864. Addy's story is sure to engage young girls as they learn what it was like to be a girl during the Civil War in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader."--
46) Spring will come
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 3
Publisher
A Voice In The World Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Description
"As her beloved city of Richmond is transformed into a deadly Civil War battlefield, spirited Carrie Cromwell puts her medical skills to work in a Confederate hospital. While she fights to save unknown soldiers, the one she cares about the most is lost to her. Meanwhile in the North, Carrie's dear friends, former slaves Rose and Moses have found freedom at last -- only to be separated by war. Can Moses, now a Union spy, elude those who are searching...
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Formats
Description
What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his...
48) Our Kansas home
Author
Series
Prairie skies volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Description
"A runaway slave shows Charlie what his family is fighting for."--Cover
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 12
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The Wayfarer Inn is hosting the debut for a traveling theater company, but acts of sabotage soon derail the production. Meanwhile, Harry gives the inn a box of old books from his antique shop that includes a battered fragment of an antique script. A clue on the cover makes the Inn Crowd wonder if it has something to do with the inn's role as a station on the Underground Railroad.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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...
52) River runs deep
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
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.
53) Hope's gift
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A runaway slave during the Civil War, Hope's father returns after the Emancipation Proclamation as a member of the U.S. Colored Troops.
55) Willow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Edition
First edition.
Description
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"This Step into Reading collection features five American Girl leveled readers, including Freedom for Addy, Kaya Rides to the Rescue, Melody Lifts her Voice, Molly's Christmas Surprise, and Samantha Helps a Friend. With exciting, inspiring stories about girls who faced big challenges with bravery and determination, this book is the perfect gift for young readers ages 4 to 7. The stories cover a range of settings and topics, including finding freedom...
Author
Series
Sons of liberty volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.
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