Hering, Marianne.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction HerMcCoy, Sarah
Summary: "When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can't bear...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mc Coy 2015Whitehead, Colson
Summary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WHIHaley, My.
Summary: In 1862, Virginian slave Mary Louvestre risks certain death during the Civil War to smuggle the plans for modifications to the ironclad CSS Virginia to the Union.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Köehler Books 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HALMcBride, James
Summary: Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBGrissom, Kathleen
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIPeterson, Doug
Summary: "Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETWhitehead, Colson
Summary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016