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1) Flying free
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
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
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 Railroad.
Author
Language
English
Description
An ocelot. A slave. An angel thief.
Multiple perspectives spanning across time are united through themes of freedom, hope, and faith in a most unusual and epic novel from Newbery Honor-winning author and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt.
Sixteen-year-old Cade Curtis is an angel thief. After his mother's family rejected him for being born out of wedlock, he and his dad moved to the apartment above a local antique shop. The only payment the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts her thoughts turn to escape -and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
It is 1854 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eleven-year-old Eliza's mother has been sold and Eliza is left as a slave on a Virginia farm. Eliza has only the quilt her mother left her and the memory of the stories her mother told. One day Eliza gathers a bit of food, the quilt her mother gave her, and her journal, then escapes into the night.
14) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
17) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
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