underground railroad

Provides facts about the Underground Railroad and discusses its history.

This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.

Emily and Matt use the Canadian Flyer to travel back in time to meet Harriet Tubman and Dr. Alexander Ross and help along the Underground Railroad.

Reveals the secret codes woven by African American slaves into quilts providing directions to those traveling north on the Underground Railroad.

Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.

1848: Emily Edmonson was among seventy-six fugitives caught on the Pearl during America's largest slave escape attempt. She was to be sent south - unless her father paid ransom.

A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days.

Lou and Benzer prayed for their summer to be exciting, but not in the bad way that seems to be happening--the county wants to take Lou's house away from her family. To save it, Lou and Benzer try to solve a mystery about Lou's great-great-great-grandfather and the gold he stole during the Civil War. In the search she finds her great-great-great-grandmother's diary and learns a heap about her family's colorful past.

Simple sentences and color illustrations depict an African American family seeking freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.