Anderson, Laurie Halse

CHAINS After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

2008

316 p.

Armstrong, Jennifer

STEAL AWAY In 1855, two 13-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a Virginia farm (slave state) and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar girls.

1992

207 p.

Ayres, Katherine

NORTH BY NIGHT A Story of the Underground Railroad 1851 Ohio. Presents the journal of a 16-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.

1998

176 p.

Berry, James

AJEEMAH AND HIS SON in 1807, at the height of the slave trade, Ajeemah and his son Atu are snatched in mid-stride by slave traders from their home in Africa, while en route to deliver a dowry to Atu's bride-t-be. Ajeemah and Atu are then taken to Jamaica and sold to neighboring plantations, never to see one another again.

1991

83 p.

Burtinshaw, Julie

THE FREEDOM OF JENNY Jenny Estes shares her fathers dream of freedom. But for Jenny, born into slavery in Missouri in the 1840s, freedom seems an impossible dream.

2006

182 p.

Carbone, Elisa

STEALING FREEDOM A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her fmaily, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada. 1853.

1998

258 p.

Collier, James

WAR COMES TO WILLY FREEMAN 1775. A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.

1983

178 p.

DeAngeli, Marguerite

THEE, HANNAH! Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave.

2000

99 p.

Fox, Paula

THE SLAVE DANCER 1840, New Orleans. 13-year-old Jessie Bollier, kidnapped from his New Orleans home to provide music while slaves on a slave ship exercise, learns of human cruelty and of friendship and trust.

1978

216 p.

Gaeddert, LouAnn

BREAKING FREE In 1800, shortly before his 12th birthday, Richard is sent to live with his uncle on a farm in upper New York State, where he teaches a young slave to read and encourages her to dream of freedom.

1994

136 p.

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Guccione, Leslie

COME MORNING 12-year-old Freedom, the son of a freed slave living in Delaware in the early 1850's, takes over his father's work in the Underground Railroad when his father disappears.

1995

120 p.

Hahn, Mary Downing

PROMISES TO THE DEAD 12-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to hlep a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.

2000

197 p.

Hansen, Joyce

THE CAPTIVE Kofi's safe world is suddenly shattered by white men who have arrived from the coast, stealing his people to sell into slavery. Soon Kofi finds himself being led in chains from his African village to a cold farm in New England.

1994

195 p.

Hansen, Joyce

I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl Dear America Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 12-year-old Paatsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time folloing the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

1997

168 p.

Hausman, Gerald

TOM CRINGLE THE PIRATE AND THE PATRIOT In 1813, a 14-year-old British navy lieutenant records in his logbook, a perilous journey as he and his men attempt to return a group of slaves to the Jamaican plantation from which pirates stole them: pirates who are determined to reclaim their bounty.

2001

137 p.

Hermes, Patricia

ON WINTER'S WIND As she struggles to make ends meet while maintaining her family's dignity, 11-year-old Genevieve faces the possibility of turning in a slave for the bounty. Pre-Civil War, New Bedford, MA.

1995

163 p.

Hill, Pamela

A VOICE FROM THE BORDER Living in the border state of Missouri during the Civil War, 15-year-old Reeves tries to understand her father's decision regarding their slaves.

1998

232 p.

Lasky, Kathryn

TRUE NORTH A Novel of the Underground Railroad 1858 Massachusetts/Virginia. Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, 14-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.

1996

267 p.

Hurmence, Belinda

A GIRL CALLED BOY A pampered young black girl who has been mysteriously transported back to the days of slavery, struggles to escape her bondage.

1982

168 p.

Lyons, Mary

LETTERS FROM A SLAVE GIRL The Story of Harriet Jacobs 1825 North Carolina. A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.

1992

126 p.

Lyons, Mary

THE POISON PLACE 1741-1827. A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death.

1997

160 p.

McGill, Alice

MILES' SONG In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a 12-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.

2000

213 p.

McKissack, Patricia

LOOK TO THE HILLS THE DIARY OF LOZETTE MOREAU, A FRENCH SLAVE GIRL New York Colony, 1763 Dear American Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

2004

188 p.

McKissack, Patricia

A PICTURE OF FREEDOM The Diary of Clotee, a slave girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 In 1859, 12-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decided whether to escape to freedom.

1997

169 p.

Meadowcroft, Enid

BY SECRET RAILWAY In 1860, the world was made aware of the extent of political strife in the United States when Abraham Lincoln was nominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, against the bitter protests of the southern delegates. Young David Morgan, the son of a staunch Lincoln supporter and avid Abolitionist, knows about slavery, the political issues surrounding it, and the underground railroad which exists to help the runaway slave to freedom; but the issue is brought painfully close to home when a young friend and former slave is kidnapped and sold again into bondage. Set in Illinois and Missouri, the novel is rich with local color and state and national history.

1948

272 p.

Melzer, Milton

UNDERGROUND MAN A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days.

1972

261 p.

Nixon, Joan Lowery

WILL'S STORY:1771 Young Americans Colonial Williamsburg 12-year-old Will Pelham's Father is the gaoler for the city of Williamsburg. Mr. Pelham took the job only a few months ago, and Will still feels uncomfortable with the prisoners in the cells beneath his family's living quarters. As he does his chores at the goal, however, he becomes sympathetic to some of the prisoners, particularly Emmanuel, a runawy slave. Then Will starts to suspect that Emmanuel is planning to escape.

2001

131 p.

O'Dell, Scott

MY NAME IS NOT ANGELICA Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-34.

1989

129 p.

Paterson, Katherine

JIP: HIS STORY 1855-56 Vermont. While living on a Vermont poor farm, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother.

1996

181 p.

Paulsen, Gary

NIGHTJOHN Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

1993

92 p.

Paulsen, Gary

SARNY This sequel to NIGHTJOHN tells what happens to the slave Sarny after Nightjohn teaches her to read.

1999

180 p.

Pearsall, Shelley

TROUBLE DON'T LAST Samuel, an 11-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.

2002

203 p.

Petry, Ann

TITUBA OF SALEM VILLAGE The Salem Witch trials, 1692, condemns Tituba, a slave from Barbados.

1964

254 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

HANG A THOUSAND TREES WITH RIBBONS The Story of Phyllis Wheatley A fictionalized biography of the 18th century African woman, who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important African-American poet.

1996

336 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

WOLF BY THE EARS Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her - to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.

1991

248 p.

Robinet, Harriette

FORTY ACRES AND MAYBE A MULE Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about 12 years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom that it promises. April 1865 Reconstruction

1998

127 p.

Robinet, Harriette

THE TWINS, THE PIRATES, AND THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS 12-year-old Afro-American twins attempt to escape in the face of pirates, an American army, and the British forces during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

1997

134 p.

Robinet, Harriette

WASHINGTON CITY IS BURNING In 1814 Virginia, a slave in President Madison's White House experiences the burning of Washington by the invading British army.

1996

149 p.

Ruby, Lois

SOON BE FREE 13-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.

2000

302 p.

Ruby, Lois

STEAL AWAY HOME In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.

1994

192 p.

Shaik, Fatima

MELITTE In 1772, years of mistreatment force 13-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl sho is the only person who ever loved her.

1997

144 p.

Siegelson, Kim

HONEY BEA On a Louisiana sugar plantation, a young slave girl struggles with the magical powers that have been passed down from her grandmother and mother to her, unsure of the responsibilities and consequences that accompany this power.

2006

276 p.

Smucker, Barbara

RUNAWAY TO FREEDOM Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.

1977

152 p.

Stolz, Mary

CEZANNE PINTO A Memoir In his old age, Cezanne Pinto recalls his youth as a slave on a Virginia plantation and his escape to a new life in the North.

1994

279 p.

Wait, Lea

SEAWARD BORN In 1805, a 13-year-old slave and his friend make a dangerous escape from Charleston, S.C., and stow away to head north toward freedom.

2003

150 p.

Walter, Mildred Pitts

SECOND DAUGHTER The Story of a Slave Girl Aissa, the teen-age fictional sister of Elizabeth Freeman, struggles against a system which declares that she is property and that she is to remain silent. 1781 just before the Revolution.

1996

214 p.

Wisler, G. Clifton

CALEB'S CHOICE While living in Texas in 1858, 14-year-old Caleb faces a dilemma in deciding whether or not to assist fugitive slaves in their run for freedom.

1996

150 p.

Woodrudd, Elvira

DEAR AUSTIN Letters from the Underground Railroad In 1853, in letters to his older brother, 11-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his black friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.

1998

137 p.

Wyeth, Sharon

ONCE ON THIS RIVER It is 1760. Monday de-Groot and her mother, Leslie, a midwife, sail from their home in Madagascar to New York, to testify on behalf of Leslis's brother Frederick, who has been falsely imprisoned and taken as a slave.

1997

181 p.

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn

FOUR HORSES FOR TISHTRY Tishtry's wish to buy her family's freedom from slavery in the Roman Empire inspires her to perform dangerous feats of stunt riding.

1985

214 p.