What Was the Underground Railroad?
by Yona Zeldis McDonough and Lauren Mortimer • Part of the What Was? What Is? Series • Related Edition: Spanish-Language
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no... read more
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- Grade
- 1-6
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2013
Word Count 8,603
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 710L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 165682, 1 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century--Juvenile literature
- Underground Railroad
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Unite
- Antislavery movements
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Fugitive slaves--United States--History--19th century--Juvenile literature
- 19th century
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 19th Century
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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- History
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 19th Century
- Fugitive slaves
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