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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Fugitive slaves Fiction Fugitive slaves Juvenile fiction Fugitive slaves United States Juvenile fiction Slavery Fiction Slavery Juvenile fiction Underground Railroad Fiction Underground Railroad Juvenile fiction United StatesHopkinson, 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 POLSmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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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 LESWinter, Jeanette.
Summary: By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dragonfly Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WINWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: On a cold December night, Louis must decide whether to brave the treacherous Detroit River to take a slave family to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: JE WHECole, Henry
Summary: In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLHering, Marianne
Summary: "In Rescue on the River, the third book in a three-part story arc focusing on Civil War America, cousins Patrick and Beth attend Abraham Lincoln's inauguration and discover that their friend's brother Kitch is a slave in South Carolina. The cousins search for Kitch as they travel down the Combahee River with Harriet Tubman. They help with the secret mission of the Second South Carolina...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HERBader, Bonnie
Summary: The Underground Railroad includes miles of real stories of passengers, conductors, and abolitionists, well-known and unknown, that made their mark on history. Throughout, American Girl character Addy Walker shares snippets of her own gripping fictional story of escaping slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017