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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 1859.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
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 gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Audience "Ages 7 and up"--cover p. [4].
With the end of the Civil War in 1865, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache.
11) Angel thieves
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1865, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend and chooses a birthday for herself as she and her parents try to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia despite the racial prejudice they encounter throughout the city.
14) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
114 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In the forest, a group of animals help a runaway slave escape his pursuers.
17) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
18) Flying free
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
103 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1800's, while serving as cook's apprentice on his uncle's schooner with his pet monkey, Allie, twelve-year-old Ray discovers that they are transporting a fugitive slave to the free north.
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