Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman

3/5

Harriet Tubman was a southern slave, her destiny to work the rest of her life. This all changed when she ran away on the underground railroad, run by Quakers and fellow freed slaves. She walked by night and slept in the day. After reaching the north, she goes back to the south to save her fellow slaves. She saves her family, and then she joins the military fight against the southern
army. She survived the war and died of old age in 1913.

Moccasin Trail

5/5

This book is about a boy who ran away from home as a young boy to be a trapper like his uncle .
He was mauled by a bear very badly and was taken in by the crows so he spent 6 years as a Indian.he went back to trapping beaver.One day he got a letter but he could not read it because he had forgotten how to.So he went to a town to find help,he had someone who knew his uncle t0 read it to him,it said that his younger brother needed help.So he went to find his brother,his brother said he needed his help for claiming land in Oregon (he wasn't 18).He helped him.While in Oregon he struggled whether he really a Indian or a white man,in the end he decided he was white.
THE END
this book was a great read and i recommend this to everyone

William Wilberforce God's Politician

4/5
William Wilberforce was a British politician of the 1780s-1830s.
He was a abolitionist and he led the movement against slavery in Britain and its colonies.
He devoted his life to demolishing slavery because of his religious beliefs.

Sing Down the Moon

3/5
This book starts with a young Navaho girl, Bright Morning, tending her sheep. As she is tending them, she is captured by the Spanish slaves and taken to a village several days away. She and two other slaves escape. Once she gets back to Canyon de Chelly, her family is very happy to see her. Early one winter morning the "long knives" (American soldiers Fort Defiance) came and told them they needed to leave. When they didn't leave, the solders ruined the Navaho's crops and capture them. The Navahos are taken to their new home (Fort Sumner). Along the way, they meet up with more Indians who are going to the same place. Once they get to Fort Sumner, they are told to plant crops, and the long knives give them flour for food. The next two harvests failed and they started to run out of food, so Bright Morning and her husband run back to Canyon de Chelly. They escape from long knives for now.

THE END

Texas History

This summer i read Texas history . I read :A Paradise Called Texas , I Remeber the Alamo, Poli, All for Texas, two of my favorites were A Paradise Called Texas and All for Texas





i recemend them

5/5 stars

A Paradise Called Texas is about a young girl that lives in germany who wants to go and live in texas.they pay the baron for sea fare and some land.they get on the ship and once they get to indian point there is hundreds of people they stay at indian point untill January.there is a family coming from the german colonies wanting to go back to germany.they buy the wagon they have

and they start the trip to new braunfel,they stop in victoria to get food and contuine on their journy .





All for Texas is about a boy who moves from kentucky to texas and he and his best freind fight in the revolution his dad and freind die,its A very sad book but the storyline makes up for the sad parts.

By the great horn spoon!

I give this book a 3/5 rating becuse it ended diffrent

but it was also a very cool book i recommend this book,





spoiler alert





ditto





So this book starts out with a boy and butler in 2 barrels as stowawayson a ship bound for California. The year is 1849. They are going for the gold rush and their money is stolen when they try to buy tickets. So they make a deal with a trader to hide them in 2 barrels next to 16 other barrels of potatoes. After afew days they come out and tell the captain that they are stowaways. The captain gets mad and makes them work shoveling coal, but they tell them about how someonestole their cash and is probably on the ship. They make a plan to expose him. They tell the captain and they go on with the plain. They get all the people to line up and they tell the people they have a magic pig that will squeal when a thief touches it. They turn off the lights and coat the pig with coal dust. They let all the people touch it and then turn on the lights again. They have everyone hold up their hands. The one who dosent have coal dust on their hands is the thief, so they find him and punish them.


Five months later they finally arrive in California, and they are out of money to pay for the trip to the gold fields. (It is early in the gold rush stage so there are no mines yet, just spots where people are digging). They go to a hotel and buy a room. Then they go and try to make some money. Someone tells them that miners have golddust in their hair. They start offering free hair cuts for the gold dust to pay for their trip to the fields. They get the money and go to the fields. They meet a miner who teaches them how to sift gold and how to mark a claim; eventualy they make their own claim and stirke it rich (200+ pounds of gold).


They are on their way back to California on a steamboat, but the steamboat is trying to break a steam record and it blows up. Their gold starts sinking and they will have to go home empty handed, but when they get to San Francisco, the butler's mistress, the boy's aunt, is there, so they dont have to go home afterall. They stay in California and keep on mining.



THE END.