Content-Based Chapter Books Fiction (Social Studies: Stand Up and Speak Out): A Road to Freedom

A Quaker family offers their home as a station on the Underground Railroad. When they host a family of runaway slaves, the community struggles with the decision about whether to protect them or turn them in. Students will learn about important events that shaped American history through the Stand Up and Speak Out series of historical fiction readers’ theater. Readers follow the lives of children and their families as they struggle to make the right decisions during times of change. (Genre: Historical Fiction for Readers’ Theater)