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Language
English
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Series
An Elm Creek quilts novel volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Sylvia Compson discovers evidence of her ancestors' involvement with the Underground Railroad, it raises the historical issue of the use of quilts as a method of signalling fugitive slaves.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1980.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. Published in 2010, The Kitchen House became a grassroots bestseller. Fans connected so deeply to the book's characters that the author, Kathleen Grissom, found herself being asked...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v.
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Mercy's song
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 19
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
LuAnn Sherrill has just started as chair of the Marietta Christmas-in-History tour but is already overwhelmed by the demands of Fern McPherson. Things are further complicated when one of LuAnn's former students comes to town to visit her sister Michele, who is immediately carried off to the hospital unconscious. LuAnn and her friends at the Wayfarers Inn must make sense of the cryptic notes in Michele's notebook and solve a possible crime before Christmas....
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 20
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Sherlock Society is having a convention at the Wayfarers Inn when a donation for the Underground Railroad Museum goes missing. The Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts are on the case and soon discover clues that tie the theft to an Arthur Conan Doyle mystery.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the from of the Underground...
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 15
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
273 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Wayfarers Inn employee Winnie wins a baking competition, the Inn Crowd capitalizes on it by offering a free loaf of her award-winning bread to the first twelve guests to book a room at the inn. But when strange messages begin showing up inside the loaves of bread, the friends must figure out who would want to harm them or Winnie. Meanwhile, a demanding guest named Reena Newberry begins to wear on the Inn Crowd. Finding out what she wants from...
19) The bucket list
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 26
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
287 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spring has sprung at Wayfarers Inn, and Tess, LuAnn, and Janice are excited to host an Easter egg hunt extravaganza. Local businesses have chipped in, providing eggs loaded with all kinds of candy and prizes--coupons for services, free goodies, and even cash. Then there is the grand prize: a golden egg stuffed with three hundred dollars. But when the golden egg is found, it's empty! Tess is baffled--she knows the egg was filled with money when the...
20) Harriet Tubman
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rookie biographies series. An introduction to the life and work of Harriet Tubman, who helped free slaves through the Underground Railroad and continued helping freed slaves after the Civil War.
