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Author Adler, David A.

Title Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad / David A. Adler.

Publication Info. New York : Holiday House, 2013.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB TUBMAN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB TUBMAN c.2  Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 305.567 TUBMAN    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Children's Room  JB TUBMAN, HARRIET ADL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Children's Department  J92 TUBMAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J92 TUBMAN    DUE 04-26-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J92 TUBMAN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  JB-TUBMAN, H.    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 140 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136) and index.
Contents Minty -- Hair saved her life -- Talking to the Lord -- A glory over everything -- The Underground Railroad -- The fugitive slave bill -- "Shout, you are free!" -- John Brown -- A miraculous rescue -- Secession -- Spy, guide, laundress and nurse -- Horrors of war -- Ghosts, cows, and buried treasure -- Difficult last years.
Summary A comprehensive introduction to the life and achievements of the heroic former slave details how after managing her own escape, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to guide other slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, in a portrait that also relates her subsequent contributions as a wartime cook, nurse, spy, and suffragist.
Audience Middle School.
990 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader 7.2.
Reading Counts! 8.4.
Subject Enslaved persons.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- United States -- History -- 19th Century.
African Americans -- Biography.
Underground Railroad -- Juvenile literature.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Cultural Heritage.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
Underground railroad.
Women -- Biography.
Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Women.
Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913 -- Juvenile literature.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- United States -- History -- 20th Century.
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Underground Railroad. (OCoLC)fst01160987
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Subject Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913. (OCoLC)fst00042709
ISBN 9780823423651 (hardcover)
0823423654 (hardcover)
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