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900L
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English
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"The operation of the Underground Railroad did not look the same to everyone involved--understanding depends on perspective. In the Viewpoints and Perspectives series, more advanced readers will come to understand different viewpoints by learning the context, significance, and details of the escape network through the eyes of three different people, while engaging with text through questions sparking critical thinking. Books include timeline, glossary,...
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Cincinnati played a large part in creatng a refuge for escaped salaves and in the Underground Railroad movement.
Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to navigate. While this waterway was a symbol of freedom and equality for thousands of enslaved black Americans who had escaped from the horrible institution of enslavement, the Ohio
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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Documents the efforts of an Ohio community to secure the freedom of escaped slave John Price, examining various aspects of Price's escape from Kentucky, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the heroic showdown.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" (Newsday).
Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader of the Harper's Ferry slave uprising,...
Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader of the Harper's Ferry slave uprising,...
108) Harriet Tubman
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 620L
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English
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The life story of Harriet Tubman—escaped slave, abolitionist, and champion of women’s rights—in graphic novel format. Harriet Tubman: Fighter for Freedom! tells the inspiring story of a woman who not only escaped from slavery in 1849 but also risked her life to return to the American South in order to free others from bondage. This biography, told in graphic novel format, presents Tubman’s life in detail: her childhood on a Maryland plantation,...
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"Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history - a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical research, Larson reveals Tubman as a complex woman - brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. The descendant of the vibrant, matrilineal...
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"When war reaches Clarissa's back door, the trustworthy become even fewer. Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night she is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, working with a mysterious man called Liberty. She would like to share her work with Kyle, but he refuses to enlist when...
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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Across fields, over fences, and through dark forests Two cartoon flies accompany readers as they follow Harriet Tubman's daring escape from slavery, providing equal measure of facts and fun while telling the story of this heroic moment in American history."
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"Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman" is a biography of Harriet Tubman, written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford in 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War. The book describes life and adventures of Tubman, an escaped slave, who had helped many escaped slaves travel to the northern States and Canada before the Civil War, using the Underground Railroad. Bradford wrote this book, using extensive interviews with Tubman, to raise funds for Tubman's...
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"Harriet Tubman was a scout for the union army and led a successful raid up the Combahee River in South Carolina that freed 750 men, women, and children. This is the historical novel of her heroic raid."--
"May 1863. Out-generaled and out-gunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back with massive losses at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Fort Sumter, hated symbol of the Rebellion, taunts the American navy with its artillery and underwater mines....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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"No one knows where the term "Underground Railroad" came from--there were no trains or tracks, only abolitionist "conductors" who helped bring an estimated 100,000 slaves to freedom through elaborate routes that included "stations," safe houses where fugitives could rest before moving on, and a system of codes and signals used to identify friend from foe. Including real stories from the "Railroad," What Was the Underground Railroad? will capture young...
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