Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0635069911
Four kids visit the Underground Railroad museum in Philadelphia and get caught up in a mystery which involves "reading" a quilt.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0635080524
One secret quilt, two magic johnnycakes, three wishes for good luck, tons of trouble and seconds to escape! When four real kids visit the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Philadelphia, they learn the history, geography, and secrets of the Underground Railroad as they race to find stolen quilts before the grand opening! LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! The Underground Railroad - Definition - Origins ? Vocabulary (conductors, passengers, stations, etc.) Š Use of constellations Š Location of stations Š Details of how, why, and when conductors moved passengers Š Use of quilts and symbols Š Harriet Tubman Š Friendship Road Š Statistics Š Conditions along the journey north Š William Still, a conductor, escaped slave, author Š Thomas Garrett and his work as a conductor Š Definition of abolitionists Š Beginnings of slavery Š Typical life of slaves Š Slave auctions Š Plantation life Š Emancipation Proclamation Š Quakers as abolitionists Š Resting trees Š USS Constellation Š History of the Liberty Bell Š Thomas Garrett and his work as a conductor Š Definition of abolitionists Š Beginnings of slavery Š Typical life of slaves Š Slave auctions Š Plantation life Š Emancipation Proclamation Š Quakers as abolitionists Š Resting trees Š USS Constellation Š His Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA. Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.1 Accelerated Reader Points: 3 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 74566 Lexile Measure: 770 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40
Author : Yona Zeldis McDonough
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0448467127
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground Railroad comes alive!
Author : Faith Reese Martin
Publisher : Life Reloaded Specialty Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9781608000142
Teen psychics Jinx MacKenzie and Max Myers swirl back through history in the Time Tunnel, landing in 1851 to become conductors on the Underground Railroad.
Author : Lori Mortensen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404831037
Learn how Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and led others to freedom on the underground railroad.
Author : Kate Messner
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0593428951
Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about the Underground Railroad and Black Americans' struggle for freedom. Perfect for fans of I Survived! and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. Before the Civil War, there was a crack team of abolitionists who used quilts and signal lanterns to guide enslaved people to freedom. RIGHT? WRONG! The truth is, the Underground Railroad wasn't very organized, and most freedom seekers were on their own. With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, acclaimed author Kate Messner and coauthor and Brown Bookshelf contributor Gwendolyn Hooks deliver the whole truth about the Underground Railroad. Discover the nonfiction series that smashes everything you thought you knew about history!
Author : Jeanine Michna-Bales
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1616896094
They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
Author : Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439369077
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345804325
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Author : Randolph Paul Runyon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0813148413
In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster took a break from her teaching responsibilities at Lexington Female Academy and accompanied Calvin Fairbank, a Methodist preacher from Oberlin College, on a Saturdary drive in the country. At the end of their trip, their passengers—Lewis Hayden and his family—remained in southern Ohio, ticketed for the Underground Railroad. Webster and Fairbank returned to a near riot and jail cells. Webster earned a sentence to the state penitentiary in Frankfort, where the warden, Newton Craig, married and a father, became enamored of her and was tempted into a compromising relationship he would come to regret. Hayden reached freedom in Boston, where he became a prominent businessman, the ringleader in the courthouse rescue of a fugitive slave, and the last link in the chain of events that led to the Harpers Ferry Raid. Webster, the focal point at which these lives intersect, remains an enigma. Was she, as one contemporary noted, "A young lady of irreproachable character?" Or, as another observed, "a very bold and defiant kind of woman, without a spark of feminine modesty, and, withal, very shrewd and cunning?" Runyon has doggedly pursued every historical lead to bring color and shape to the tale of these fascinating characters.
