Books for Each Level
On grade level
Houston, Gloria. Bright Freedom's Song. Harcourt Brace & Company: New York, 1998.
Reeder, Carolyn. Shades of Gray. Avon Books: New York, New York, 1989.
One Below Grade Level
Gauch, Patricia Lee. Thunder at Gettysburg. Bantam Books: New York, New York, 1975.
Porter, Connie. Addy Saves the Day: A Summer Story. Pleasant Company
Publications, 1994.
Stolz, Mary. A Ballad of the Civil War. Scholastic, Inc: New York, 1997.
Two Below Grade Level
Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas. Next Stop, Freedom: The Story of a Slave Girl. Silver
Burdett Press, 1991.
Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Alfred A. Knopf: New York,
1993.
Monjo, F. N. The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad.
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1970.
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. Philomel Books: New York, 1994.
http://www.waynet.wayne.in.us/nonprofit/coffin.htm
Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, this National Historic Landmark
is a Federal style brick home built in 1839. This site for the home of
Levi Coffin includes biographical information, pictures of the house, and
maps.
http://www.ils.unc.edu/nc/LeviCoffin.html
A short biography of Levi Coffin.
The Fugitive Slave Act
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/bh042.html
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/armadillo/Sciacademy/socstuddept/fugslvlw.html
A copy of the actual Fugitive Slave Law
Commodore Perry
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,60817+1+59330,00.html?query=commodore%20perry
Abolitionists
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,3407+1+3373,00.html?query=abolitionists
The Underground Railroad
http://www.ushistory.com/railr.htm
Music about the Underground Railroad
http://www.ugrr.org/
A national Non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation,
preservation, and restoration of Underground Railroad safe houses
and environments.
http://www.ugrr.org/learn/heroines.htm
Women of the Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/index.html
Slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
PBS's companion web site to the series, Africans in America.
http://www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm
The African American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom