Quick view Escape From Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom by Doreen Rappaport Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War. View Details
Quick view Across the Lines by Carolyn Reeder Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War. View Details
Quick view Bull Run by Paul Fleischman In this brilliant fictional tour de force that can be read as a novel or performed as readers' theater, the Newbery Award-winning author recreates the first great battle of the Civil War from the points of view of 16 participants--Northern and Southern,... View Details
Quick view Annie, Between the States by L M Elliot Annie Sinclair's Virginia home is in the battle path of the Civil War. Her brothers, Laurence and Jamie, fight to defend the South, while Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers. When she develops a romantic connection with a Union Army... View Details
Quick view Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty During the final days of the Civil War, 12-year-old Hannalee is among 2,000 Georgia textile workers shipped north by the Union Army to work in Yankee mills. Can she make her way home to her family? View Details
Quick view Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry The author of Tituba of Salem Village renders a compelling portrait of Harriet Tubman, one of the pioneers of the Underground Railroad--the system of safe houses and routes that led hundreds of slaves to freedom. View Details
Quick view Harriet Tubman: A Woman of Courage by Renee Skelton As a teenage slave, Harriet Tubman stood up to an overseer who was trying to harm another slave. From that time forward, Tubman (above left) fought against unfairness and for what she believed was right. She helped hundreds of African Americans escape... View Details
Quick view Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad by Pamela Duncan Edwards Innovative perspective and use of light as well as a spare text result in an unforgettable portrayal of one slave's journey to freedom. Full color. View Details
Quick view The Drinking Gourd: The Story of the Underground Railroad by F N Monjo Sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroad. View Details
Quick view Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder The third Little House book describes Almanzo Wilder's boyhood on his father's farm in upper New York state, over a century ago. View Details
Quick view How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn Schanzer Inventive art and superb storytelling bring to life the story of how one of the most famous inventions ever created--the lightning rod--came to be made by the energetic, humorous, and genius Ben Franklin View Details
Quick view Capital!: Washington D.C. from A to Z by Laura Krauss Melmed This picture book takes young readers on a tour of Washington, D.C., with lively verse complemented by interesting facts about the people and places in the nation's capital. Full color. View Details
