The Underground Railroad: An Interactive History Adventure

by Allison Lassieur

Overview

You are a slave in the 1850s, thinking of escaping this harsh life, OR . . .You are slave catcher looking to get rich by chasing escaped slaves, OR . . .You are part of the Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape to freedom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429611831
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	09/01/2007
Series:	You Choose: History Series
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	620L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Allison Lassieur has never had pop-star dreams, but she once sang in a choir that went on a multi-state tour on the way to Walt Disney World. Today she’s an award-winning author of more than 150 history and non-fiction books about everything from Ancient Rome to the International Space Station. Her books have received several Kirkus starred reviews and Booklist recommendations, and her historical novel Journey to a Promised Land was awarded the 2020 Kansas Library Association Notable Book Award, and Library of Congress Great Reads Book selection. Allison lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a scruffy, loveable mutt named Jingle Jack, and more books than she can count.

Table of Contents

The slavery question — Running to freedom — Slave catcher : on the hunt — The abolitionist's story — The end of the Underground Railroad.

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Booklist

Designed for elementary and middle school students, this series offers a unique interactive experience. The student gets a chance to make several choices throughout the book and realize the consequences. For example, the reader can choose to be a young enslaved person and try to escape with his/her father or he/she can choose to stay on the plantation and help his/her mother. Going with the father can lead to getting caught and sold or even dying in the wilderness. But maybe the escape will be successful and lead to freedom. In other scenarios, the reader takes on the role of a slave catcher or an abolitionist who runs a station on the Underground Railroad. This format gives the student a chance to experience what happened to real people during the ear of the Underground Railroad. This is a more interesting way to learn about history than standard textbook approaches. The book concludes with a time line, a bibliography, Internet sites, a glossary, and an index.

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