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Leslie, Tonya Luqman-Dawson, Amina Meister, Cari. Walter, Jon Weatherford, Carole BostonWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEALuqman-Dawson, Amina
Summary: "Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his younger sister, unwillingly leaving their mother behind. Through tangled vines, hidden doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved people and some freeborn children, Homer finds new friends, almost...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LUQWalter, Jon
Summary: Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WALLeslie, Tonya
Summary: "Addy Walker escapes a Southern plantation during the turbulent Civil War. Meet Addy as she and her mother make a daring journey from slavery to freedom in 1864. Addy's story is sure to engage young girls as they learn what it was like to be a girl during the Civil War in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: Peg Leg Joe travels from plantation to plantation singing the Drinking Gourd song that will guide slaves to freedom in the North.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Picture Window Books 2012