Slavery/Underground Railroad

Armstrong, Jennifer - Steal Away (206 pages) In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.

Barnes, Joyce Annette - Amistad: a Junior Novel (120 pages) Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States and the arrest for piracy and murder and the trials which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.

Beatty, Patricia - Jayhawker (214 pages) In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansas farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.

Clark, Margaret Goff - Freedom Crossing (164 pages) After spending four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen- year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on the underground railroad.

Fritz, Jean – Brady (223 pages) Brady knew there was something strange going on over at Drover Hull's cabin. He thought Hull was helping runaway slaves and he just had to tell someone. But the minute he told his father, Brady could tell by the look on his face that he'd opened his mouth once too often. When he learned of his father's part in the slavery controversy, Brady wanted to help him, but he knew his father wouldn't trust him to keep a secret.

Hamilton, Virginia - The House of Dies Drear (246 pages) A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Hermes, Patricia - On Winter’s Wind (163 pages) 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.

Paterson, Katherine - Jip: His Story (181 pages) While living on a Vermont farm, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.

Rosen, Michael - A School for Pompey Walker (unpaged) At the dedication of a school named after him, an old former slave tells the story of his life and how his white friend helped him earn the money for the school by repeatedly selling him into slavery, after which he always escaped.

Turner, Glennette Tilley - Running For Our Lives (198 pages) A family of fugitive slaves becomes separated while traveling to freedom aboard the Underground Railroad.