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Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Series
An Elm Creek quilts novel volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Sylvia Compson discovers evidence of her ancestors' involvement with the Underground Railroad, it raises the historical issue of the use of quilts as a method of signalling fugitive slaves.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[40] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
151 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Dak, Sera, and Riq in mid-nineteenth-century America, where they work to free the Underground Railroad from SQ influences and Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Great Aunt Lucy tells a story of her days as a slave, when she and her brother, Albert, learned the quilt code to help direct other slaves and, eventually, Albert himself, to freedom in the north.
12) Freedom's wings
Author
Series
Corey's diary volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1995], c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
152 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.
Author
Series
The saddler's legacy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
395 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Trophy
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Harriet Tubman's daring escape from slavery and her heroic efforts that brought three hundred African Americans to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
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 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground...