History Explorer Results (1)
Related Books (10)
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media
Runaway Robot is an exciting new cross-curricular digital game for secondary classrooms from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Anchored in content from the museum’s exhibition Discovery a
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Informative children's book about the underground railroad.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.
Author:
Pamela Duncan Edwards
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
The story of a slave's escape on the underground railroad.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
The story of two boys growing up in Pennsylvania during 1853, where they encounter slave traders, Harriet Tubman, and the Underground Railroad.
Author:
Katherine Patterson
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
This historical tale by Katherine Paterson involves its young protagonist, Jip, in the great 19th century struggle between slave owners and abolitionists while sending him into a test of his own loyalty and courage.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A young girl excapes slavery with her mother (from the American Girls Collection).
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A fictionalized account of the life of heroic Harriet Tubman.
Reading Level:
Middle School,High School
The author draws from several primary resources, accounting the experiences of teenagers traveling on the railroad in order to survive the Great Depression.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Meet Robert Smalls, a man who was born a slave, but made a daring escape and went on to become a U.S. Congressman.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A powerful historical novel that is harsh and realistic, not only about the brutal effects of slavery that the runaways carry with them forever but also about the prejudice and hardship they encounter on their journey to freedom.