Message in the sky
(Book - Regular Print)

Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.

Corey begins attending school, and his family, along with his friend, Mingo, are living well in Canada, where they've built their own farm. But, the Birdsongs cannot let go of the memories of their friends left behind in America. Corey and Mingo hatch a plan to help Aunt Queen, Mingo's adopted mother, escape, but Corey's parents forbid it, and start saving money to buy her freedom, instead. However, when Corey accidentally ends up on the American side of the Ohio River, he finds himself a conductor on the Underground Railroad!

610 L,Lexile

610L,Lexile

Decoding demand: 80 (high),Semantic demand: 92 (very high),Syntactic demand: 81 (very high),Structure demand: 86 (very high),Lexile

Accelerated Reader,Grades 5-8,4.0,1.0,SD,Quiz 71309,English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.

Accelerated Reader AR,MG,4.0,1.0,71309.

Accelerated Reader,Grades 5-8,4,1,SD,Quiz 71309,English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.