CC Cycle 3

Picture Books for Cycle 3
 

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1. Follow the drinking gourd

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Author:
Winter, Jeanette
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Week 9
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20 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Picture Books
E WINTER
Cary Regional - Picture Books has 2
E WINTER
Fuquay-Varina Community - Picture Books has 2
E WINTER
Description:
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.

2. Moses: when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom

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Author:
Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
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Duraleigh Road - Childrens Biography
JB TUBMAN
Eva H. Perry Regional - Childrens Biography
JB TUBMAN
Green Road Community - Childrens Biography
JB TUBMAN
Description:
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.

3. Henry's freedom box

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Author:
Levine, Ellen
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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23 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Picture Books has 4
E LEVINE
East Regional - Picture Books
E LEVINE
Eva H. Perry Regional - Picture Books
E LEVINE
Description:
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

4. Harriet Tubman, secret agent: how daring slaves and free blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War

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Author:
Allen, Thomas B.
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Richard B Harrison - Juvenile Non-Fiction - Does Not Circulate
J973.7 ALLEN
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Provides a biography of this courageous ex-slave who worked to establish the Underground Railroad, became a Union Army spy, and helped more than seven hundred slaves find their way to freedom in the North.