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61) Flying free
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After serving Martha Washington for twenty years, Oney realizes that she will never be a part of General Washington's family at Mount Vernon. She must make a choice: does she stay where she is, comfortable with the family that she has known since she was born, or does she take liberty into her own hands and, like her father, become one of the Gone?
64) Edenland
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Born a slave, Bledsoe had never left Our Joy plantation, and a daring escape offers his only chance for liberty. On the run he encounters Alice, an Irish indentured servant committing what appears to be an act of murder as she burns down a shack in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina. Faced with the threat of capture, Bledsoe and Alice become reluctant allies. An epic tale unfolds as their quest for freedom pulls them from swamp to city, from...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by legendary author Mark Twain is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, and plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.
Author
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
1835, Utica, New York. Newlywed Helen Galway discovers two runaway slaves hiding in the shack behind her husband's house and is suddenly faced with a terrible dilemma. Should she be a good wife and report the fugitives? Or should she help them? Meanwhile, Utica itself is caught between stark divisions as abolitionists arrive for the founding meeting of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society and newspapers accuse the group of being insurrectionists...
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