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Messner, Kate

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MES

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MES

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MES

Clinton, Catherine

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUBMAN, HARRIET CLI

Murphy, Jim

Summary: In September 1862, two great armies faced each other across Antietam Creek. The outnumbered Confederate forces were led by General Robert E. Lee. The Union army was led by General George B. McClellan. Jim Murphy uses archival photographs, maps, and firsthand accounts to recreate one of America's most important battles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7336 MUR

Rice, Condoleezza

Summary: "From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 RIC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 321.8 RIC

Cobb, Charles E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 COB

Baumgartner, Alice

Summary: "The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border intoMexico. In South to Freedom historian Alice Baumgartner tells the story of Mexico's rise as an antislavery republic and a promised land for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BAU

Chandler, Matt

Summary: "The true story of Lt. Robert Grimes running for his life as he evades being captured by Nazi soldiers. Robert Grimes escapes danger with help from the Comet Line, a resistance group that rescued Allied soldiers during WWII"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 CHA

Otfinoski, Steven.

Summary: "In You Choose format, explores the history of Juneteenth Day, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the post-Civil War South, and efforts to end racism"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.896 OTF

Morton, Andrew

Summary: Diana in Pursuit of Love includes previously unpublished details from the Diana-Morton tapes, it is based on wide-ranging research, and new and exclusive interviews. The definitive book on Diana, Pricess of Wales's last years, by the biographer she herself chose. When Andrew Morton's world-famous biography, Diana: Her True Story was first published, it caused a media frenzy, severely jolted the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Large Print Home Library 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DIANA, PRINCESS MOR

Goodrich, David M.

Summary: "The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight: a great church in Philadelphia; a humble old house backing up to the New Jersey Turnpike; an industrial outbuilding in Ohio. Over the course of four years, David Goodrich rode his bicycle 3,000 miles east of the Mississippi to travel the routes of the Underground Railroad and delve into the history and stories in the places where they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 GOO

Smith, James K. A.

Summary: "A popular speaker and award-winning author invites readers to meet the ancient African thinker who can help us find ourselves and a faith that speaks to our deepest hungers and hopes"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 SMI

Crawford, Matthew B.

Summary: A celebration of open-road driving explores the road trip as a technology-threatened but enduring path to human reliance, exploration, and freedom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.3 CRA

Summary: Through centuries of suffering, slavery, inequality, discrimination, segregation, and racist violence, African Americans have endured, resisted, fought, and, increasingly over time, won many battles. These victories were propelled by a groundswell of grassroots action, but they were also motivated and organized by courageous and inspirational leadership. Journalists, abolitionists, educators,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFR

Bay, Mia

Summary: "What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobilityhas been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BAY

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