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Harriet Tubman and the freedom train

2003
Contains a brief, narrative biography of Harriet Tubman, in simple text with illustrations, from her birth into slavery, through her daring escape to freedom in the north, to her efforts during the Civil War to free other slaves through the establishment of the Underground Railroad.

Steal away

1992
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.

Follow the drinking gourd

1997
A young slave girl sets off north with her brother and mother, following the star in the Drinking Gourd, or Big Dipper, that points to freedom.

A school for Pompey Walker

1995
At the dedication of a school named after him, an old former slave tells the story of his life and how, with the help of a white friend, he managed to save money to build a school for black children in Ohio by being repeatedly sold into slavery and escaping.

Ghost train to freedom

an adventure on the Underground Railroad
2012
Teen psychics Jinx MacKenzie and Max Myers swirl back through history in the Time Tunnel, landing in 1851 to become conductors on the Underground Railroad.

Fleeing to freedom on the Underground Railroad

the courageous slaves, agents, and conductors
2006
An account of how the Underground Railroad helped slaves to escape to freedom before the Civil War.

The personal correspondence of Hannah Brown and Sarah Smith

the Underground Railroad, 1858
2003
Hannah Brown, granddaughter of the most active abolitionist in slave-holding Northern Virginia, corresponds with Sarah Smith, daughter of conductors on the Underground Railroad in the free state of Pennsylvania.

Stealing South

a story of the Underground railroad
2001
Sixteen-year-old Will Spencer leaves home to become a peddler, but gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to go to Kentucky, steal two slaves, and help them reach their brother in Canada.

Harriet Tubman

slavery and the underground railroad
1991
A biography of the courageous woman who rose from slave beginnings to become a heroic figure in the Underground Railroad.

Soon be free

a companion to Steal away home
2002
Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.

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