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The second novel by the acclaimed author of "Gabriel's Story" is history infused by myth, the intense narrative of an escaped slave trying to reunite ... More

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In F.N. Monjo's suspenseful historical adventure about the underground railroad, Tommy and his father help a family of slaves make their way to ... More

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"Follow the Drinking Gourd" sounded like a simple folk song sung by slaves, but it was really a map to freedom--for hidden in the lyrics were ... More

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Corey Birdsong and his family are slaves owned by the wealthy Hart family in Kentucky. When his father flees to the North, Corey and his mother soon ... More

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Lost and alone after a grueling escape north, 16-year-old former plantation slave Belle Palmer finds that freedom holds many surprises for a girl ... More

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Born as Master Hackler's slave, the only life 11-year-old Samuel knows is working the Kentucky farm--until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no ... More

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In this brief glimpse into one man's passage along the Underground Railroad, something magical occurs. The forest animals and their noises deliver ... More

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A young slave's faithful dog comes to his rescue when the boy is captured while trying to escape. The story is based on the real-life ordeals of ... More

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Corey searches for freedom in the same country that has made an economy of slavery. When Corey's father learns he is to be sold, he flees to the ... More

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From the award-winning author of "Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm" comes a poignant novel about 12-year-old Eliza, a slave who tells of her journey to ... More

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A young man makes a decision to flee seaward to freedom in this moving and dramatic story set in the American south. "Full of thought-provoking ... More

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Inspired by accounts in the WPA "Slave Narrative Collection, Night Boat to Freedom" is a memorable celebration of courage, hope, and unselfish love. ... More

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Patricia Polacco's most powerful book since "Pink and Say." In the middle of the night, The Crosswhites?including young Sadie?must flee the Kentucky ... More

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Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.

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After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother ... More

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1852. Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne ... More

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After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true ... More

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This true story is the historically accurate account of the escape, capture, and sensational Boston trial in 1854 of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns ... More

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A young girl's courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn, she is at once ... More

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Jonas has lived all of his thirteen years on a farm in Missouri, and even though he hears whispers about freedom, he thinks he'll never try to escape ... More

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The acclaimed author of the Reflections of a Black Cowboy series and the Stories of the Forgotten West series now returns with the poignant story of ... More

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A runaway slave and a determined slave catcher become tangled in a web of intrigue and adventure in James McBride's intricately constructed and ... More

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"Graham and Brody are runaway slaves, fleeing a cruel master and his slave hunter. Before they left, they were instructed to find the abolitionist ... More

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It's 1858, and fourteen-year-old Lucy Bradford lives in Boston and is nothing like her older sisters. Instead of making a fuss along with everyone ... More

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During the California Gold Rush Rosabel, an African American, and Sophie, a Jew, team up and search for gold to buy Rosabel's mother her freedom from ... More

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