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Sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the Underground Railroad.

"In Rescue on the River, the third book in a three-part story arc focusing on Civil War America, cousins Patrick and Beth attend Abraham Lincoln's inauguration and discover that their friend's brother Kitch is a slave in South Carolina. The cousins search for Kitch as they travel down the Combahee River with Harriet Tubman. They help with the secret mission of the Second South Carolina Volunteers, an African American unit. Will they be able to find...

On the Cristina's trip up the Mississippi, Libby Norstad and her friends meet a talented violinist who seems to have secret. Libby is set on discovering what it is, but when they arrive in St. Paul, his violin is stolen. Libby, Caleb, and Jordan lead the search, but find nothing. Then the fugitive slave Jordan meets his biggest enemy, and takes on a new role in the Underground Railroad.

In 1857, while helping to conceal a runaway slave on her father's Mississippi River steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby looks to God for support and hopes that her friend Caleb will let her join the Underground Railroad.

Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption--and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad.

"In this retelling of Cinderella, enslaved girl CeeCee is helped by the house cook to make her way to escape via the Underground Railroad where she encounters Harriet Tubman; includes a note about Harriet Tubman and names during slavery"-- Provided by publisher.

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his...

On a cold December night, Louis must decide whether to brave the treacherous Detroit River to take a slave family to freedom.

"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy."--P....

With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother.