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1998., Pleasant Co. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The American girls collectionSummary Note: 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.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Stone Arch Books Call No: Hist. Gold Fiction SMITH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
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2017., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Historical FIC Morgan Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Historical Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Jonah Williams is a slave on a South Carolina plantation. After being falsely accused of stealing a book, he is lashed viciously, and decides to run away. With only a knife, a few coins, and the North Star for direction, he sets out on the road to freedom. While dodging bounty hunters and the natural dangers of the Appalachians, Jonah meets Angel, a fellow slave and free spirit, who decides to follow him north.
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c2004., Primary, Sleeping Bear Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a cold December night, Louis must decide whether to brave the treacherous Detroit River to take a slave family to freedom.
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c2004., Primary, Thomson/Gale, : Thomson/Gale Call No: Easy WHELAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The Winter of 1850 finds young Louis alone with his mother when his father heads north for work, but when runaway slaves ask Louis for help being ferryed across the Detroit River he wonders what his father would do.
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Ã2013., Riverhead Books Call No: Historical FIC McBride Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A slave child in Kansas in 1856, Henry Shackleford is taken in by abolitionist John Brown after Brown confronts and has a heated argument with Shackleford's master. Now privy to Brown's movements and the anti-slavery efforts of his small militia, Shackleford keeps his head down to stay alive right up until the moment Brown launches his doomed and fatal assault on Harper's Ferry.
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Ã2013., Riverhead Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st Riverhead trade Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Henry Shackleford, a slave boy from the Kansas Territory, is caught up in John Brown's crusade for freedom of slaves and when he escapes from his master's home, he must disguise himself as a girl in order to stay safe and is nicknamed Onion by John.
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[2020]., 053500., Showtime Networks Call No: DVD FIC GOO Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this Limited Event Series based on the award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum America and the ever-changing roles of race, religion and gender in American society.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition, February 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Historical Fiction FIC CUR Edition: 1st ed., February 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him. Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing"--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F CUR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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2009, c2006., Primary, Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Picture Book RAV Edition: 1st Square Fish ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
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1995., Berkley Prime Crime Call No: Historical fiction FIC MONFREDO Availability:28 of 28 At Location(s) Summary Note: Glynis Tryon decides not to marry, staying in Seneca Falls, and when her landlady's son Niles appears with Kiri, a slave he convinced to escape and whom he plans to marry, Glynis helps to defend Niles at his southern trial and to investigate several unexplained deaths.
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1995, c1993., Berkley Prime Crime Call No: Mystery FIC Monfredo Edition: Berkley Prime Crime ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1854, while the rest of Seneca Falls, New York, gears up for the opening of a new theater, librarian/sleuth/women's rights activist Glynis Tryon investigates the death of a freed slave and discovers shocking secrets about several abolitionists.
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[2000]., Pre-adolescent, Sandpiper Call No: FIC HAHN Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War. The journey brings danger in the form of riots and slave catchers.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Chronicle Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: 741.5 LAG Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Graham and Brody, two slaves on the run prior to the American Revolution, gain extraordinary powers and, on the advice of Benjamin Franklin, try to go unnoticed, but their other mentor, Benjamin Lay, has different plans for them that involve masks and the African martial art of Dambe.
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By Burg, Ann E.2016., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: After Grace gets called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, she sees how truly heartless and hateful Master and Missus are, and for the first time, she can't hold in her pain and anger about the way she lives. Fleeing for their own safety, Grace's family find themselves deep in the wilderness in a hidden community called the Great Dismal Swamp, unsure if they'll ever reach freedom.
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By Burg, Ann E2016., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC BURG Edition: 1st ed., October 20 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Audiobooks Call No: RB FIC BURG Bur Edition: [Unabridged]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there"--OCLC.
