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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Taking liberty	Ann Rinaldi	After serving Martha Washington loyally for twenty years, Oney Judge realizes that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom.	OL112471W
Copper sun	Sharon M. Draper	Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary t…	OL12484W
The black bonnet	Louella Bryant	As they near the end of their journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad, twelve-year-old Charity and her sixteen-year-old sister Bea encounter additional perils.	OL14847769W
Escapes from slavery	Stephen Currie	Narratives of five escapes from slavery, each of which was typical in many ways but featured unusual personal characteristics or circumstances that made these trips to freedom extraordinary.	OL15057921W
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers--Volume Eight	Mark Twain,Lewis Carroll,Rachel Carson,Anthony Hope,The Editors of The Reader's Digest	Contains: [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) / Mark Twain -- The sea around us / Rachel L. Carson -- [Alice's adventures in won…	OL15150278W
The Portable Mark Twain	Bernard Augustine De Voto,Mark Twain	Contents: Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County from A Tramp Abroad from Old Times on the Mississippi Private History of a Campaign that Failed from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co…	OL15290077W
North by night	Katherine Ayres	Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.	OL15838749W
Sailing to freedom	Martha Bennett Stiles	Twelve-year-old Ray is in trouble from the moment he and his monkey, Allie, board the Newburyport Beauty. But when bounty hunters come looking for a runaway slave, it’s Ray and Allie who must save hi…	OL16126164W
Black, white, other	Joan Steinau Lester	Twenty miles from Oakland, California, where fires have led to racial tension, multi-racial fifteen-year-old Nina faces the bigotry of long-time friends, her parents' divorce, and her brother's misbe…	OL16495305W
Wench	Dolen Perkins-Valdez	Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. Situated in Ohio, this idyllic retreat is particularly nice in the summer when the Southern humidity is too much …	OL16967090W
The house girl	Tara Conklin	2004: Lina Sparrow, an artist's daughter, is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine, a sevent…	OL17763700W
President of the Underground Railroad	Gwenyth Swain	A biography of a Quaker man from North Carolina whose fearless work on the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio helped thousands of men and women escape the cruelty of slavery.	OL1804874W
Unbound	Ann E. Burg	The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master …	OL19908489W
The vanishing woman	Doug Peterson	"In 1848, Ellen Craft became invisible. Ellen, a slave from Macon, Georgia, took trains and steamboats north, but the people all around couldn't see her. They saw only a white man. Ellen Craft's moth…	OL19961735W
Underground abductor	Hale, Nathan	Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for ab…	OL19997587W
Glory over everything	Kathleen Grissom	"The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret comp…	OL20022916W
The second Mrs. Hockaday	Susan Rivers	"The Civil War South comes to vivid life in this electrifying story of a woman's plight and a legacy of deceit that echoes for generations. When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of…	OL20043556W
The second Mrs. Hockaday	Susan Rivers	"When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's 300-acre farm and infant son. A mere teenager herself, Placidia must endure…	OL20060427W
Passing for White	Tanya Landman	103 pages : 20 cm	OL21151073W
The Underground Railroad for Kids	Mary Kay Carson	The heroic struggles of the thousands of slaves who sought freedom through the Underground Railroad are vividly portrayed in this powerful activity book, as are the abolitionists, free blacks, and fo…	OL2712311W