Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)

BTSB #: P00524 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Runaway children - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Mississippi River - Fiction Missouri - Fiction

Summary: The adventures of a boy growing up in half-settled Missouri in the 1840's, who with a runaway slave floated down the Mississippi on a raft.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : (Tom Sawyer's comrade) [Enriched Classics]by Twain, Mark 

Paperback(Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009)

BTSB #: 895819 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Adventure Fiction Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Finn, Huckleberry - (Fictional character) - Fiction Adventure fiction Humorous fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction Mississippi River - Fiction

Summary: Tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim.

Bell rang by Ransome, James 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)

BTSB #: 739504 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 1.8 LG RC: 2.2 K-2 Lexile: 360

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.

Freedom bird by Nolen, Jerdine 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 678702 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-9   
AR: 4.4 LG Lexile: 780

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Fugitive slaves - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Freedom - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.

Journey of little Charlie by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 253869 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 7.5 6-8 Lexile: 960

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Sharecroppers - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction South Carolina - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction United States - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.

Journey of little Charlie by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P04040 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Sharecroppers - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction South Carolina - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction United States - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: When his sharecropper father is killed, leaving the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie makes a deal to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of fugitives.

Running out of night by Lovejoy, Sharon 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 588296 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.3 MG Lexile: 830 F&P: V

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Runaways - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: Journey of an abused twelve-year-old white girl and an escaped slave girl who run away together and form a bond of friendship while seeking freedom.

Unbound : a novel in verse by Burg, Ann E. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03543 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Slaves - United States - Fiction African American families - Fiction Slavery - United States - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction Family life - Fiction Southern States - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction

Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.