Freedom Train (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Scholastic Biography) [School & Library Binding]

Dorothy Sterling (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1991 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Scholastic Biography

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line 19 times, a brave Negro woman led many fellow slaves to freedom.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• School & Library Binding: 191 pages
• Publisher: Turtleback (June 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0808580345
• ISBN-13: 978-0808580348
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,663,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Freedom Train (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Scholastic Biography) (School & Library Binding)

In the beginning of the book Harriet Tubman was planning how to escape from slavery. She worked on a plantation in the south like so many other slaves. Harriet Tubman escaped with another slave and they got caught a white man hit Harriet in the head with a heavy object which caused her to have a concusion. When she got better she tried it again and made it to the north, were she got a job. She went back and got her family and friends. Harriet started making friends on the way that would help her and other slaves escape to the north, so Harriet started going back to the south and freeing slaves. She freed more then 300 slaves over the year.
Also Harriet fought in the army, became a nurse in an Negro hospital and trained other women to be nurses and founded the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. She was a very tall black women that could not read or write. But she did so much for the slaves and to help free them.