When Tommy Largent was five years old, he saw his father kill a man right before his eyes. If not for his mother's bravery and strength that night, they both would have surely perished as well. Now, six years later, Tommy isn't just bullied by the other kids in town, he's an outcast, branded forever from his father's crime. He seeks an escape in football, the game that he loves, and despite his short stature, was born to play. But his mother forbids him from playing, and even if she allowed it, the local coach won't even give him a tryout. So he resorts to playing in secret, tossing passes that only he can catch, and booting punts that will never be returned. But when he meets Flash Jackson, a local legend and former Pro ballplayer, he hatches a plan. Maybe if he could get Flash to coach him, to teach him the game, he could get good enough that the coach and even his mom would have to give him a chance to play. It won't be easy, Flash is now a recluse and hates the game that he once loved because it destroyed his body and broke his spirit. But even if Flash agrees to coach Tommy he will have to be more than his mentor; he will have to protect Tommy as well. You see Rick Largent has gotten a huge break and is now out of prison, and he has one thing on his mind, to finish what he started.

Tells the story of former U.S. Marine Jamie Summerlin's 100-day, 3,452-mile run across the country to honor wounded veterans, revealing the heartfelt stories of many heroes he met along the way.

The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy’s explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial “Muleseeds” are bred. Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Lottermule knows there is only one way to escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner. Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night Lindy and her mama run away in search of freedom, Sally goes too. This young girl's rag doll vividly narrates her enslaved family's courageous escape through the Underground Railroad. At once heart-wrenching and uplifting, this story about friendship and the strength of the human spirit will touch the lives of all readers long after the journey has ended.

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

Running for Freedom, Fourth Edition, updates historian Steven Lawson’s classic volume detailing the history of African-American civil rights and black politics from the beginning of World War II to the present day. Offers comprehensive coverage of the African-American struggle for civil rights in the U.S. from 1941 to 2014 Integrates events relating to America’s civil rights story at both the local and national levels Features new material on Obama’s first term in office and the first year of his second term Includes addition of such timely issues as the Trayvon Martin case, the March on Washington 5oth anniversary, state voter suppression efforts, and Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act

Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.