|
The House of Dies Drear
|
Virginia Hamilton |
A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. |
OL11278406W |
|
Dear Austin
|
Elvira Woodruff |
Dear Austin is a book about Eleven year old Levi and his friends Jupiter and Possum, in Pennsylvania. Throuout the book Levi is writing letters to his older brother Austin. Levi lives with Miss Amel… |
OL138040W |
|
Secret of the old red barn
|
Sandra L. Zaugg |
In 1860 Michigan, as twelve-year-old Zach and his father become involved in a new, unnamed church and befriend neighbors who are freed slaves, they have conflicts with townspeople and with Zach's mot… |
OL15468834W |
|
Unspoken, a story from the underground railroad
|
Henry Cole |
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. |
OL16415321W |
|
The other side of free
|
Krista Russell |
In 1739, having escaped from slavery under the British, thirteen-year-old Jem finds himself in the custody of sharp-tongued Phaedra at Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, but his efforts to break free of P… |
OL18174973W |
|
Freedom Songs
|
Trina Robbins |
Fourteen-year-old Sarah is a slave in Maryland during the 1850s. She knows her only chance at freedom is to head North, where slavery is illegal. To get there, though, Sarah needs help from members o… |
OL1906776W |
|
Brady
|
Jean Fritz |
A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities. |
OL1931493W |
|
Chasing freedom
|
Nikki Grimes |
In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's ri… |
OL19995948W |
|
River runs deep
|
Jennifer Bradbury |
Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption--and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Ra… |
OL20007448W |
|
Theres Dead Person Following My Sister Around Pa
|
Vivian Vande Velde |
Eleven-year-old Ted becomes concerned and intrigued when his five-year-old sister Vicki begins receiving visits from two female ghosts. |
OL20678216W |
|
Message in the Sky
|
Sharon Dennis Wyeth |
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 1… |
OL2698237W |
|
Freedom's wings
|
Sharon Dennis Wyeth |
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857. |
OL2698239W |
|
Follow the drinking gourd
|
Bernardine Connelly |
A young slave girl sets off north with her brother and mother, following the star in the Drinking Gourd or Big Dipper that points to freedom. Includes compact disc recording by Morgan Freeman in pock… |
OL2986978W |
|
Secret signs
|
Anita Riggio |
When the barn used for hiding runaway slaves burns to the ground, Luke, who is deaf, finds a unique way to pass along information about the next safe haven. |
OL3372827W |
|
Aquila's drinking gourd
|
Pamela Dell |
In West Virginia in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but never imagining that she will board it so s… |
OL3458159W |
|
The Spirit and Gilly Bucket
|
Maurine F. Dahlberg |
Children's historical novel.
In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold in the Rocky Mountains, the eleven-year-old is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befrie… |
OL50056W |
|
Mystery at Kittiwake Bay
|
Joyce A. Stengel |
it is about Cassie and her brother Danny and a bunch of other stuff |
OL6213145W |
|
Henry's freedom box
|
Ellen Levine,Kadir Nelson,Ellen Levine |
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. |
OL695989W |
|
Secret to Freedom
|
Marcia K. Vaughan |
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. |
OL8275118W |
|
Steal away
|
Jennifer L. Armstrong |
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two… |
OL891703W |