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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856 - a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces - when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good-luck charm. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay...
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When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings ... Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in the...
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"This new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only to discover that his aristocratic lover Caroline is pregnant. Before he can reveal his real identity to her, he learns that his beloved servant Pan has been captured and sold into slavery in the...
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890L
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English
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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,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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"Addy Walker's family is planning a dangerous escape from slavery during the summer of 1864. But before they can leave, the most terrible thing Addy can imagine happens -- her Poppa and her brother, Sam, are sold! Addy and her Momma decide they must head out on their own. Although the road to freedom is difficult, Addy's new life brings new friends, school, and even the opportunity to help others. But when will her family be reunited?"--
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When Quakers Flora Saferight and Bruce Millikan embark on the Underground Railroad, they agree to put their differences aside to save the lives of a pregnant slave couple. With only her mother's quilt as a secret guide, the foursome follows the stitches into unknown treachery. As they embark on their perilous journey, they hope and pray that their path is one of promise where love sustains them, courage builds faith, and forgiveness leads to freedom....
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Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 01
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Three friends purchase a historic hotel in Marietta, Ohio, and learn it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. When strange things begin happening at the inn, an old journal written by former slave and Underground Railroad "conductor", Prudence Willard, may shed light on the present-day mysteries at the inn.
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[2018]
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English
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When Janice Eastman wakes from a nap to find her five-year-old grandson has gone missing, she must confront crippling fears as her search takes her into the darkest recesses of Wayfarers Inn. There, she makes a startling discovery: skeletal human remains lie alongside an antique photo of a woman holding a child. The discovery of the bones pulls her, Tess, and LuAnn into a mystery that they must quickly solve before archaeological and general curiosity...
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Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 02
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The Inn Crowd is plunged into another mystery when their contractor stumbles across a trunk containing an old, tattered quilt in one of the secret rooms that housed runaway slaves. Just moments earlier, they had learned that the famous River of Life quilt was stolen from the National Archives. Could this be the missing quilt? And how did it come to be at Wayfarers Inn? As Tess, Janice, and LuAnn set out to uncover the truth, they are shocked to...
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Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 04
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[2018]
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English
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LuAnn, Janice, and Tess have finally turned an old Ohio hotel, which had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, into a bed and breakfast. However, a broken elevator marred opening day and local handyman, Thorn, has disappeared. LuAnn discovers a valuable Civil-War era bracelet in Thorn's toolbox, which is a part of a long-ago tale of theft, betrayal, and sacrifice.
11) Spirit dream
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2016.
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Rose, a virtuous and courageous fourteen year old slave, endures abuse at the hands of her master. After bearing his daughter, Hannah, she escapes with other runaways on the Underground Railroad at the onset of the Civil War. Rose is forced to grow into an adult as she enounters violence, brutatlity, injustice, and death on the road to freedom.
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2022.
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Español
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Cora, hija de esclavos, ha crecido en una plantación en Georgia, un lugar infernal donde se ve sometida a la crueldad de sus amos y marginada por sus iguales. Ya adolescente conoce a Caesar, otro esclavo, quien le propone juir junto hacia el norte utilizando el «ferrocarril subterráneo». La joven dejará su hogar y emprenderá un arriesgado viaje a lo desconocido.
Cora, the daughter of slaves, has grown up on a plantation in Georgia, a hellish...
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[2014]
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English
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The great escape of the African slaves out of bondage in the South in the 1850s and 1860s is told through the dramatic and danger-filled story of one young man, Tice, and his escape to Canada on the Underground Railroad. The 19-year-old, God-fearing Tice runs from his master's plantation in Maysville, Kentucky, and swims the Ohio River to Ripley, Ohio, where he is connected to a network of people who rush him northeastward, ever northeastward - finally...
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[2016]
Language
English
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This Book Club in a Box is a book discussion kit which circulates for six weeks and contains everything you need to host your own book club.
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...
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