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Hopkinson, Deborah. Leslie, Tonya Pearsall, Shelley Polacco, Patricia. Porter, Connie RoseHopkinson, Deborah.
Summary: A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC POLLeslie, Tonya
Summary: "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."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LESPorter, Connie Rose
Summary: After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1993
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Summary: Trying to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia after having been a slave, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PORPearsall, Shelley
Summary: Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Eleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hackler's slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he's ever known, until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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Summary: After the Civil War ends, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1994