Get on board : the story of the Underground Railroad
Title:
Get on board : the story of the Underground Railroad
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.
Other Title:
Story of the Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad
The story of the underground railroad
Year Published:
1993
Physical Description:
152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
pages : illustrations
Note:
This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Purple System Choice Library Grade 5 Level V kit.
Contents:
How the Underground Railroad got its name -- Long history of slave escapes, and of fugitive slave laws -- Tracks and stations -- Stationmasters -- Conductors -- Harriet Tubman, the woman called Moses -- Railroad songs -- Train robbers -- Passengers -- John Brown, fugitive slave -- Publicists -- End of the line -- Time line -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note (Local):
PB
Grade Interest level:
5-8.
ISBN:
9780590454186
9780590454193
Publisher:
New York, New York : Scholastic, 1993.
©1993
