Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad by James Haskins

Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad Reviews

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  Dale

  Published in 1993 by Scholastic.
  
  Jim Haskins' introduction to the Underground Railroad is aimed at grades 4-7. It is a solid little history of the origins of the abolitionist movement, the Underground Railroad and slavery. It mostly focuses on the heroes of the abolitionist movement, but it does its best to try to work in a lot of individual stories of the Underground Railroad.
  
  For example, I enjoyed the letter that Jermain Wesley Loguen wrote to his former owner (he had run away) when she demanded that he pay for himself. It was the perfect blend of snark and indignant refusal.
  
  The longest biography in the book goes to Harriet Tubman with Frederick Douglass coming in a close second. That is appropriate since their stories are extraordinary. Haskins does a real solid job of introducing the two real-life people that the most famous African American characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin are based on and then reminding the reader of them when he discusses the novel and its impact.
  
  However, it is not a perfect book...
  
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  Noninuna

  This book is a nonfiction that discusses about the loosely organized network of people and places that helped slaves run away & seek freedom in the north & Canada that was known as the Underground Railroad. There are a few names that I recognize from my nonfiction reading and I've heard about the Underground Railroad a few times but never actually learn or read about the actual thing. I'm glad that I found this book randomly in the library because now I got the basic ideal of what the "railroad" they're talking about. I've also learned what inspired the
  Uncle Tom's Cabin and what it's implication in the literature world at the time of the publication.
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  Cody Mr. Cody

  Get On Board
  By:Rowan Cody
  
  
  
  
  The author of the book is Jim Haskins and this book is Nonfiction and there is no illustrator only original photographs. Other book that they have done that you might know are “The day Martin Luther King,Jr..Was Shot” and he also wrote “Africans beginnings”. He mostly writes about slavery or rights for african american people. This book is about The Underground Railroad and all about slaves on slave ships and what they did to try to escape. The point of view is 3rd person omniscient. We always knew what was going on with each person. A teaser is the book is just a lot of information about slaves,underground railroad and how they escaped.
  
  The locations in this book are in the U.S.A, slave boat, underground railroad, plantation and slave auction. It's all in different locations. It is 1775-Abolished. It makes the story more adventurous because there is action in this book. And there are a lot of cliffhangers so you never know what's going to happen. The plot changes when the characters go to different places.
  
  The names are Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Tice David and Escaped Slaves. The story is not about a family it is about different people and about there side parts and stories about what they did to escape. All of the characters in this story never give up and never stop trying to succeed at what they need to accomplish. Each character has something in common and that is there never give up and stop trying until they do what is right.
  
  Harriet Tubman and John Brown escape and they help other people escape. Harriet Tubman and John Brown are protagonist. Slave catchers, owner, buyers and sellers are antagonist. Some supporting characters are there parents and other slaves. They help them get out of slavery so they can be free. It starts of talking about the underground railroad and how it got its name. Harriet Tubman and Tice Davids both get away and use the same method which is the underground railroad. A problem for Tice Davids is that when he was escaping from his master in kentucky his master was on hot pursuit. A problem for Harriet Tubman is when she was six years old she was forced to work and if she didn't she would get threatened or else they would beat her. The most exciting part of the book for me was when “California was admitted to be a union free state” The characters can usually get passed it because there are very smart and they think differently than everybody else. Slavery was abolished for the most part in most places. The main characters now feel stronger.
  Some lessons of the story are. 1 if you want to succeed you have to keep working hard until you get where you need to be mentally and physically. Example: Someone was following the underground railroad path and always kept trying to help everyone and trying to get people to help them. 2 never give up until you do it. Example: In the book someone was running away and they just kept running and never stopped because they would get caught if they did until they got to where they needed to go. 3 believe in yourself and always forgive yourself when you mess up and try to fix it. Example: A slave was running away with a group and he got the rest of the group caught except for him and he went back later in the book and saved them.
  
  I liked when the main characters were running away because they almost got caught and it was exciting. Also i liked when they talked about the underground railroad because i learned a lot more about it. I liked a lot when in the book it showed a lot of pictures when they were older after slavery. I recommend this book for 4-6 grade because it's exciting and sometimes it's boring.
  
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  Diane

  This is a true story and I really found it interesting on how many people were in the underground railroad. It was against the law for anyone to help free slaves so that is why it was called the underground railroad. All was done on the hush. There were safe houses where they could get food and a place to sleep. They traveled by night. This is a book every American should read.
  
  I am proud that we in the north never had slaves and that we help to make them free. This is why the Republican party was started. It was started in 1854. The Whigs, Democrats and free soilers decided to join forces and form a new party that was absolutely against slavery. The Republican party was born.
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  Sierra Faye

  Such a good book. And... on the last page, it mentions that Harriet Tubman failed to get the government to pay her a pension for her service. Later on that same page, it mentions that she got married to a man that was much younger than she. It also mentions that her husband died from a sickness he got during the war. THEN it says that when he died, HARRIET was eligible to collect twenty dollars a month in military pension. My theory is... Did Harriet marry that man for the money!? Of course, I could be wrong, but that's what I think about the ending.
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  Abraham

  I pre-read this book before giving it to my neighbor, a bright, plucky young Black girl who loves Harriet Tubman. She's the conscientious, analytical type, so I'm sure she'll love learning more about the reality, not the myth, of the Underground Railroad -- especially from a book written at her level. One of these days, when she's older, I'll give her Frederick's Douglass autobiography. This book is partly preparation for that.
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  Krystie Herndon

  I liked this book. I did not learn much new from it, but I especially appreciated the author's tone, in pointing out historical contradictions, such as white male abolitionists barring Black abolitionists and women from joining their ranks, and the lack of information about Black involvement in the Underground Railroad, due to necessary secrecy as well as the lack of literacy among Blacks, slave or free, at that time.
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  Jennifer Ritchie

  Full of interesting information, but not particularly well organized. Helpful illustrations include photos, engravings, and news clippings from that time period. Parents may want to know that it does describe some of the cruelties of slavery; sexual abuse is mentioned on one occasion, as well as pregnant women being beaten, a slave being experimented on, etc.
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  Laurie Wheeler

  Intriguing book on the Underground Railroad, a term that symbolized the secretive journeys slaves took to freedom. We read this in our homeschool Dialectic history studies.
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  Patricia Atkinson

  the story of the underground railroad for slave to escape herritte tudmen and the work that she has done to help others to escape their plantation owners
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  Barcaisbest21(Ozmar)

  Get On Board
  
  The author of get on board is Jim Haskins and won Coretta scott king Award for authors,Jane Addams Children's book Award for book for younger Children.And he was born on september 19, 1941,Demopolis. And he died on July 6, 2005, New York . The Genre of book is nonfiction,informational my subgenre Slavery My book is Adventurous . Teaser: So this book tell you about how they escaped and how the underground railroad was founded.
  
  
  
  
  It takes place in the united states of america and there were mostly escaping from the southern colonies trying to get to canada. Some of the state that slave where trying to get away from are Virginia,South Carolina,North Carolina and New York. This book was taken place in the 1830s..
  If you move the the setting it does not affect it that much but there is in certain place where it would it work out.
  
  
  Jarmain Wesley, he is know as the Underground RailRoad King, Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave from maryland she became the most famous conductor in the Underground RailRoad, Isaac T. Hopper a Pioneer in the Underground RailRoad movement. He assisted runaways traveling through New York.This are just some characters there way more. The reason i chosen this characters is because they helped the slaves be free and have a better life this why i chosen them.this what makes them different this’s characters are different because not a lot people will help the slaves
  
  
  
  
  
  
  These character are important to the plot because they help slaves to escaped,they could have be arrested for helping slaves escape and i would say they were brave.
  
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  Trish

  I wonder how he verified his stories.
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  Bernisha Cheatham

  I think that it is a good book and it tells you what happed. When slaves had ran away and got to the underground railroad.And how they got free and how they made a good plan to escape slavery.
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  Jerry

  A very interesting book.
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  Zalec

  This Book Is Awesome I Love It I was so into this book...!!!!!