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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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-- Huckleberry Finnc1990., Juvenile, Baronet Call No: Blue Fiction TWAIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great illustrated classicsSummary Note: Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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2013., Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of a child who arrived in America on the slave ship Amistad, describing her capture, her witness to a mutiny, and the Supreme Court trial that allowed her to return to her home in Sierra Leone.
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1997., DreamWorks : Signet Call No: Historical Fic Pate Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novelization of the motion picture "Amistad," a fact-based story of the 1839 mutiny on board a Spanish slave ship,which resulted in a trial before the Supreme Court during which former American president John Quincy Adams argued in favor of freedom for the slaves.
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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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c2013., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1863, child slave Thomas and his sister Birdie journey north and meet up with Union soldiers who have orders to fight at Gettysburg.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1863, child slave Thomas and his sister Birdie journey north and meet up with Union soldiers who have orders to fight at Gettysburg.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Scholastic, Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: I survivedSummary Note: In 1863, Thomas and his sister Birdie escape their slave-lives and are headed north when they run into a Union regiment and are taken into the care of Corporal Henry Green. They march north with the army unaware they are headed straight into battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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c2013., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: Hist. Gold Fiction TARSHIS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: I survivedSummary Note: In 1863, child slave Thomas and his sister Birdie journey north and meet up with Union soldiers who have orders to fight at Gettysburg.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Scholastic, Inc. Call No: Hist. Gold Fiction TARSHIS Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Series Title: I survivedSummary Note: In 1863, Thomas and his sister Birdie escape their slave-lives and are headed north when they run into a Union regiment and are taken into the care of Corporal Henry Green. They march north with the army unaware they are headed straight into battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, 012600, Playaway Call No: [Fic] Edition: Unabridged. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: I survivedSummary Note: In 1863, Thomas and his sister Birdie escape their slave-lives and are headed north when they run into a Union regiment and are taken into the care of Corporal Henry Green. They march north with the army unaware they are headed straight into battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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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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By Rinaldi, Ann2005., Hyperion Books for Children Call No: Historical fiction FIC RINALDI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Phoebe, a slave in the Philipse household in colonial New York, must decide on the right course of action when her friend Cuffee is implicated in a reputed slave uprising.
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2017., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: HISTORICAL F BOL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.
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c2005., Juvenile, Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children Call No: FIC LESTER Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an historical fiction written in first person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.
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c2005., Juvenile, Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.
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2022., General, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Historical Fic Alexander Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
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By Taylor, Kim[2023]., Primary, Holiday House Call No: E Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A Flag for Juneteenth depicts a close-knit community of enslaved African Americans on a plantation in Texas, the day before the announcement is to be made that all enslaved people are free. Young Huldah, who is preparing to celebrate her tenth birthday, can't possibly anticipate how much her life will change that Juneteenth morning. The story follows Huldah and her community as they process the news of their freedom and celebrate together by creating a community freedom flag"--From the publisher's web site.
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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 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.