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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Mark Twain created one of America's best-loved fictional characters in Huckleberry Finn. Recounting the exploits of the imaginative adolescent as he and the runaway slave, Jim, raft down the Mississippi River, Twain ultimately addresses far deeper themes - man's inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.
Author
Series
I survived volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone -- they're marching with the army. But then orders...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hallie discovers two runaway slaves hiding in Levi Coffin's home and must decide whether to turn them in or help them escape to freedom. Includes historical notes on the Underground Railroad and abolitionists Levi and Catharine Coffin.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1865, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend and chooses a birthday for herself as she and her parents try to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia despite the racial prejudice they encounter throughout the city.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Emma is the property of Pierce Butler has taken care of his daughters since their mother left home. A rift over slavery rips the Butler household apart as to pay off his gambling debts, Pierce Butler holds a slave auction, with Emma scheduled to be sold.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Follows Harriet Tubman's spiritual journey to freedom as she, leaving her family behind, escaped from slavery and led many others to freedom.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry Brown copes with slavery by singing, but after his wife and children are sold away he is left with only his freedom song, which gives him strength when friends put him in a box and mail him to a free state.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.
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