Adler, D.
Adler, D.
Ayres, K.
Banks, S.
Banks, S.
Beatty, P.
Bentley, J.
Berry, J.
Bial, R.
Blos, J.
Chang, I.
Draper, S.
Engle,
Margarita
Everett, G.
Fleischman, P.
Fleischman, P.
Forrester, S.
Freedman, R.
Gaines, E.
Gauch, P.
Giblin, James
Cross
X
Easy
Medium
New York State
Ohio
X
X
X
YA / Fic
NF
YA / Fic
NF/Bio
Difficult
Difficult
Difficult
Gettysburg
South U.S.
Kansas
North and South U.S.
YA / Fic
NF / Photo
YA / Fic
YA /
Variety
YA / Fic
P / Bio
Difficult
Medium
Difficult
Difficult
Africa and Jamaica
Ohio, North and South U.S.
Rural New England
North and South U.S.
Medium
Medium
P / Fic
Easy
YA / Fic
YA / Fic
YA / Fic
NF / Bio
NF
P / Fic
NF, Bio
Difficult
Difficult
Difficult
Difficult
Difficult
Easy
Difficult
Ohio
North and South U.S.
Nag’s Head
U.S.
Ohio
Gettysburg
American South
A Picture Book of Frederick
Douglas
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth
North by Night
P / Bio
Easy
P / Bio
Fic
Abraham’s Battle
Juneteenth
Jayhawker
"Dear Friend": Thomas Garrett and
William Still
Ajeemah and His Son
The Underground Railroad
A Gathering of Days
A Separate Battle: Women and the
Civil War
Copper Sun
Poet Slave of Cuba, The: A
Biography of Juan Francisco
Manzano
John Brown: One Man Against
Slavery
The Borning Room
Bull Run
Sound the Jubilee
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Freedom Light
Thunder at Gettysburg
Good Brother, Bad Brother
Setting
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Africa, South Carolina
Cuba
X
X
Harper’s Ferry, VA
X
Gorrell, G.
North Star to Freedom: The Story
of the Underground Railroad
YA/NF
Difficult
North & South U.S.,
Canada
Hamilton, V.
Anthony Burns
YA / Fic
Difficult
Virginia and Boston, MA
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Underground
Railroad
X
Difficulty
**
Abolition
North and South U.S.
Type*
Civil War
Title
Slavery
Author
Heroes
Civil War and Slavery Books (last updated July 2012)
Other
X
Fugitive Slave
Act
X
Photos 7 letters
X
X
Journal
Vintage
photographs
X
Poet
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Points of view
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Ripley, OH
Children and war
Booth brothers
and Lincoln’s
assassination
Authentic old
photographs,
drawings,
documents
Fugitive Slave
Act
Hamilton, V.
Hamilton, V.
Her Stories
The People Could Fly
Fic
P / Fic
Medium
Medium
Africa
Southern U.S.
X
X
Hansen, J.
Hurmence, B.
I Thought my Soul would Rise and
Fly
Breaking Ground, Breaking
Silence
Freedom’s Fruit
Hand in Hand
Sweet Clara and the Freedom
Quilt
Slavery Time: When I was Chillun
YA / Fic
Medium
Southern U.S.
X
NF
Medium
NYC
X
Fic
Poetry
P / Fic
Easy
Medium
Easy
South U.S.
X
Southern Plantation
X
Bio / NF
Medium
South U.S.
X
Johnson, D.
Johnston, T.
Katz, W.
Now Let Me Fly
The Wagon
Black Legacy
P / Fic
Fic
NF
Easy
Easy
Medium
Africa & U.S.
Carolina plantation
NYC, Dutch Colony
X
X
X
X
X
X
Katz, W.
Black Pioneers
NF
Medium
Midwest
X
X
X
X
Lawrence, J.
Harriet and the Promised Land
Easy
Lester, J.
Lester, J.
Levine, Ellen
Long Journey Home
To be a Slave
Henry’s Freedom Box
P / Bio /
Poetry
YA / Fic
NF
F
Difficult
Difficult
Medium
South U.S., Ohio
South U.S.
American South
X
Lewis, J.
Patrick
Brothers’ War, The: Civil War
Voices in Verse
NF
Medium
North & South U.S.
X
Lincoln, A.
Lyons, M.
Lyons, M.
Lyons, M.
The Gettysburg Address
Letters from a Slave Girl
Deep Blues
Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of
Harriet Powers
Escape from Slavery: The
Boyhood of Frederick Douglas in
His Own Words
Wanted Dead or Alive: The True
Story of Harriet Tubman
Christmas in the Big House,
Christmas in the Quarters
P / NF
YA / Fic
NF/Bio
NF / Bio
Easy
Difficult
Medium
Medium
Gettysburg
North Carolina
Southern U.S.
South U.S.
YA / NF /
Bio
Difficult
North U.S.
P / Bio
Easy
North & South U.S.
X
P / Fic
Medium
Southern Plantation
X
Hansen, J. &
McGowan, G.
Hooks, W.
Hopkins, L.
Hopkinson, D.
McCurdy, M.
McGovern, A.
McKissack, P.
& McKissack,
F.
Other: Slave
tales
Emancipation
Proclamation
X
X
X
Maryland & Northern U.S.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Emancipation
Emancipation
Documents &
maps
Archival photos &
maps
X
X
X
A runaway slave
mails himself to
freedom
Photographs
accompany
poetry about the
war
Speeches
Harriet Jacobs
McKissack, P.
& McKissack,
F.
McKissack, P.
& McKissack,
F.
Mosley, Walter
Days of Jubilee
Murphy, J.
The Boys’ War
Murphy, J.
Myers, W.
The Long Road to Gettysburg
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
Myers, W.
At Her Majesty’s Request
Myers, W.
Nelson, Marilyn
Black Hands, White Sails
47
P / NF
Medium
South
NF
Medium
NE U.S.
F
Difficult
Plantation
YA / NF /
Bio
NF / Bio
NF
Difficult
North & South U.S.
Difficult
Medium
North and South U.S.
Africa, Atlantic Ocean, U.S.
Difficult
Africa & England
X
Aftermath
X
X
X
X
X
X
Supernatural
events
Authentic photos
X
X
X
X
Toussaint L’Overture
Fortune’s Bones
YA / NF /
Bio
Pic/Bio
Poet.
X
Medium
Difficult
Nolen, J.
Paterson, K.
Big Jabe
Jip: His Story
P, Fic
YA / Fic
Easy
Difficult
Paul, W.
Alphabet
Easy
Paulsen, G.
Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork
Alphabet
Nightjohn
YA / Fic
Medium
South U.S.
X
Paulsen, G.
Paulsen, G.
Pinkney, A.
Pinkney, A.
Polacco, P.
Rappaport, D.
Rockwell, A.
Rosen, M.
Sanders, S.
Sandler, M.
Sarney
Soldier’s Heart
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story
Pink and Say
Freedom River
Only Passing Through
A School for Pompey Walker
A Place Called Freedom
Civil War
YA/ Fic
YA/Fic
P / Bio
Fic
P / Fic
P
Bio
Fic/Pic
Fic/Pic
NF
Medium
Difficult
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Easy
Easy
Medium
South U.S.
X
Schroeder, A.
Schroeder, A.
Turner, A.
Walker, Sally
Carolina Shout
Minty
Drummer Boy
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine
P / Poetry
P / Fic / Bio
Fic/Pic
NF
Easy
Easy
Easy
Medium
South Carolina
South U.S.
Civil War battlefield
Charleston, S.C.
X
Mattatuck Museum,
Waterbury, CT
South U.S.
New England
X
X
X
X
N/A
Maryland
Virginia
Georgia
South U.S.
South U.S.
South U.S.
Tennessee, Indiana
North & South U.S.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Literacy
X
X
Children & War
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Courtroom
sketches
Letters and
photos
Haiti
Search for
biographical
information of
slave skeleton
Tall Tale
Fugitive Slave
Act
Quilts
X
Race relations
X
X
X
X
X
X
Sojourner Truth
Speeches,
letters, photos
“shouts”
Harriet Tubman
Abraham Lincoln
Forensic
exploration of
Weatherford,
Carole
Moses
F, NF
Medium
American South
Wesley, V.
Whelan, Gloria
Freedom’s Gifts
Friend on Freedom River
P / Fic
F
Medium
Easy
Texas, NY City
Southern U.S.
Wills, C.
Winnick, K.
Winter, J.
Woodson,
Jacqueline
Wright, C.
A Historical Album of Ohio
Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Show Way
NF
Pic/NF
Fic
NF, Bio
Medium
Easy
Medium
Easy
Ohio
U.S
North & South U.S.
Southern U.S.
Jumping the Broom
P / Fic
Easy
Southern Plantation
X
P = Picture book
YA = Young adult book
Bio = Biography
Fic = Fiction
NF = Nonfiction
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
KEY
*
X
** Easy = Level 1
Medium = Level 2
Difficult = GED-level
X
X
X
X
salvaged
submarine
Harriett
Tubman’s
spiritual
motivation
Juneteenth
Funaway slaves
ferried to Canada
Photos & Maps
X
Family history
through quilts
Weddings