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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Freedom Songs 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
Theres Dead Person Following My Sister Around Pa 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
Freedom Trail Freedom Trail Jeanne Williams A young boy is caught in the growing conflict between abolitionists and pro-slavers concerning the future of the Kansas Territory. OL2723031W
Secret signs 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
Mystery at Kittiwake Bay 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 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 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 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