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While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.

By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.

A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.

Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad.

While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.

The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls, but they know their luck is anything butsold to a "welcome house" as children and branded with cursed markings, trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When one of them accidentally kills a man, five girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country which wants them to have nothing. Pursued by Arketta's most vicious and powerful forces,...

Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. When Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest...

One of the most popular books of all-time, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been both venerated and vilified since it was first published in 1885. The story of a young abused boy on the run and his friendship with a runaway slave is about loyalty, compassion, and doing what is right.

In 1739, having escaped from slavery under the British, thirteen-year-old Jem finds himself in the custody of sharp-tongued Phaedra at Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, but his efforts to break free of Phaedra's will have surprising results.

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