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5,000 Miles to Freedom

5,000 Miles to Freedom

Judith Fradin, Dennis Fradin
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2006
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Tanya Lee Stone
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2005
Across Five Aprils

Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2002
Annie, Between the States

Annie, Between the States

L.M. Elliott
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2004
Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War

Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War

David Williams
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2008
Black Hands, White Sails

Black Hands, White Sails

Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
1999
Brave. Black. First: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World

Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World

Cheryl Hudson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2020
Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital

Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2015
Chains

Chains

Laurie Halse Anderson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Published:
2008
Crossing Ebenezer Creek

Crossing Ebenezer Creek

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2017
Elijah of Buxton

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Published:
2008
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2013
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2018
Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad

Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad

Joyce Hansen, Gary McGowan
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2003
Illustration of Revolutionary War soldiers

Give Me Liberty

L.M. Elliott
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2006
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth

Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth

James Giblin
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2005
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Andrea Davis Pinkney
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2012
Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom

Whit Taylor
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2021
Heart & Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Kadir Nelson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2012
hurricane dancers

Hurricane Dancers

Margarita Engle
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction, Poetry
Published:
2011
Lincoln and His Boys

Lincoln and His Boys

Rosemary Wells
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2009
Lincoln Through the Lens

Lincoln Through the Lens

Martin W. Sandler
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2008