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The Runaway Quilt: An ELM Creek Quilts Novel
$18.99 Add to cartAfter learning of her family’s ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia Compson scours her attic for clues and discovers a window into the world of her ancestors: the memoir of her great-grandfather’s s… [more below]
- Series: Elm Creek Quilts Novels (Simon & Schuster) #4
- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1451606095
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 135th Anniversary Edition
$22.99 Read moreThis is Mark Twain’s first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world’s best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of … [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0520266129
- Language: English
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$8.94 Add to cartA monumental work of American literature, Uncle Tom’s Cabin charts the progress to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of slavery, and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties. This edition … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199538034
- Language: English
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Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
$7.99 Add to cartBorn into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible – certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the Underground Railroa… [more below]
- Author: Sterling, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0590436287
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations
$33.68 Add to cartA beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project.
This definitive edition of The Advent- Series: Mark Twain Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0520343638
- Language: English
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$6.95 Add to cartHarriet Beecher Stowe’s timeless and moving novel, an incendiary work that fanned the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the fire of the Civil War.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the sto- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0451530802
- Language: English
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Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story
$9.99 Read moreTwelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master falls into debt, he plans to sell both Ann and her younger brothe
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Smith, Nikki Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1496580133
- Language: English
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Horse Diaries #2: Bell’s Star
$7.99 Add to cartVermont, 1850s
Bell’s Star is a brown Morgan colt with a white star and two white stockings. He was bred for hard work, yet he longs to run free with his human friend, Katie, on his back. But when Sta- Series: Horse Diaries (Quality) #2
- Author: Hart, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0375852042
- Language: English
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
$5.99 Add to cartNo 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 “R
- Series: What Was?
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26, 2013
- ISBN10: 0448467127
- Language: English
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The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman
$15.99 Add to cartIn The Underground Abductor, #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Nathan Hale tells an abolitionist tale about Harriet Tubman in the Hazardous Tales graphic novel series!
“These books- Series: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #5
- Author: Hale, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 21, 2015
- ISBN10: 1419715364
- Language: English
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Flags on the Bayou
$28.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters – enslaved and free women, plantation gen… [more below]
- Author: Burke, James Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161693
- Language: English
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Follow the Drinking Gourd
$8.99 Add to cartIllus. in full color. “Winter’s story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a so… [more below]
- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0679819975
- Language: English
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Freedom Bird: A Tale of Hope and Courage
$19.99 Read more“Powerful storytelling and immersive art.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Vibrant writing and magical realism lift this story to one of triumph.” —Publishers Weekly
“Nolen’s lively prose style re… [more below]- Author: Nolen, Jerdine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0689871678
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad
$17.00 Add to cart#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
- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 30, 2018
- ISBN10: 0345804325
- Language: English
