Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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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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c1980., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Laura returns to her home in New York after living with her aunt and uncle in Virginia for four years, she discovers that her father and brother are helping runaway slaves escape to Canada.
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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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1998., Dell Yearling / Random House, Inc Call No: Historical fiction FIC AYRES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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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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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 Ruby, Lois1994., Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: Historical fiction FIC RUBY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
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2001., Juvenile, Delacorte Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC AYRES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2016]., Doubleday Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels."--Provided by publisher.
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[2016]., Doubleday Call No: Historical FIC Whitehead Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:3 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.--
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[2016], Doubleday Call No: HISTORICAL F WHI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
