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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from—there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Describes what it was like to be involved in the Underground Railroad, discussing life on the run, the lives of the trackers, conductors, and stationmasters, and the building of new lives in Canada.
10) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Using a variety of primary sources, this biography of Harriet Tubman describes the life of a former slave who was responsible for helping many other slaves to freedom.
17) Underground
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods, sleep beneath bushes, take shelter in a kind stranger's home. Where are they heading? They are heading for Freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. --from publisher description
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