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Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated exploration of the life of Harriet Tubman that covers her childhood, experiences as a slave, escape to freedom, work on the Underground Railroad, antislavery activism, and other topics.
5) Juneteenth
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Juneteenth. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Readers will follow Tubman as she escapes to freedom and then risks her own freedom and life to rescue others from slavery. The graphica format will make it easy for readers to see what Tubman did for slaves in this country, and a timeline and key characters feature provide more information.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustration ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass was a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. He was a leader of the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer, proving that, as he said, "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
39, [1] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the reasons for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and its impact on the institution of slavery and on the course of the Civil War.