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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This Step into Reading collection features five American Girl leveled readers, including Freedom for Addy, Kaya Rides to the Rescue, Melody Lifts her Voice, Molly's Christmas Surprise, and Samantha Helps a Friend. With exciting, inspiring stories about girls who faced big challenges with bravery and determination, this book is the perfect gift for young readers ages 4 to 7. The stories cover a range of settings and topics, including finding freedom...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
Isabelle Labrie keeps her past concealed, like the treasure she hides beneath the Golden Hotel. The year is 1853 and it is the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle pins her hopes and her future on Sacramento's refined clientele and her sweetheart's promise to marry her when he returns from the goldfields. But unexpected guests-- fugitive slaves bound for the North-- force her to confront her past, reconsider her path, and trust God's provisions....
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Anna Maria Weems was just a teenager when she was given the opportunity to escape her enslaver in the mid-1800s. The journey would be dangerous, but she would have the help of abolitionists along the way. One of those supporters had a novel idea--Anna Maria would escape to freedom disguised as a boy. Learn about her brave journey on the Underground Railroad in this inspiring graphic novel"--
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Presents three animated stories about freedom in the United States, including the stories of a boy who hides in a wooden crate and mails himself to freedom; the friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass; and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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