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Hopkinson, Deborah. Leslie, Tonya Levine, Ellen. McKissack, Pat Meister, Cari. Polacco, Patricia.Polacco, Patricia.
Summary: After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC POLLeslie, 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LESMeister, Cari.
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
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEILevine, Ellen.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVHopkinson, Deborah.
Summary: A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPMcKissack, Pat
Summary: In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1997