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Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In her dreams, Phoebe twirls through rows of sea island cotton as a white dress blows around her knees like a breeze. As she dances, she loses all memory of being born a slave on an Alabama plantation. She lifts up her feet and flies high above the fields, as light as air. Before her a single white star shines. Thirteen-year-old Phoebe has always dreamed of leaving her life as a slave behind. She has heard whispers about a secret path to freedom,...
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It's 1851 and Lucy Spencer's family is keeping a secret. Their Ohio home is a station on the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places that helps fugitive slaves escape to freedom in Canada. Lucy believes in what she and her family do to help the fugitives, even if it means putting herself in danger.
So Lucy doesn't hesitate when she is asked to stay with the Widow Aurelia Mercer and help her with a family of runaway slaves hiding...
So Lucy doesn't hesitate when she is asked to stay with the Widow Aurelia Mercer and help her with a family of runaway slaves hiding...
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Series
Infinity ring volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy."--P....
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Series
Ranger in time volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the Underground Railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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.
9) Steal away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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 similar young girls.
14) Stealing freedom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
17) Freedom crossing
Author
Pub. Date
©1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After spending four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on the underground railroad.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth work to protect runaway slave Sally as they travel by train with President-elect Abraham Lincoln through northern New York state in 1861 aboard The Lincoln Special, getting assistance from Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and her son Willie along the way.