Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad
Author/Illustrator: Henry Cole Publisher: Scholastic Press, 2012 A young girl’s courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn,…
River runs deep
Author: Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015 Twelve-year-old Elias has consumption, so he is sent to Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave—the biggest cave in America—where the cool cave vapors are said…
The Underground Abductor: A Graphic Novel
Author/Illustrator: Nathan Hale Publisher: Amulet Books, 2015 This graphic novel, in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series, tells the true story of Araminta Ross, an enslaved woman born in Delaware. After…
Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrator: Michele Wood Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2020 Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.”…
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrator: Kadir Nelson Publisher: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2006 In lyrical text, Carole Boston Weatherford describes Tubman’s spiritual journey as she hears the…
Freedom Roads : Searching For the Underground Railroad
Author: Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan Publisher: Cricket Books, 2003. The Underground Railroad was meant to be a set of secret pathways, and its traces have been obscured by time.…
The Underground Railroad : an interactive history adventure
Author: Allison Lassieur Capstone Press, 2008 Starting in colonial times, thousands of African people were kidnapped and brought to the United States, where they were enslaved. Those who escaped were…
