Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman

by Ann McGovern

Book Overview

Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, Harriet Tubman dreamed of following the North Star to freedom. When she did escape, she risked her life many times to lead 300 slaves to freedom on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590442120
• ISBN13: 9780590442121
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.1" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

One of the best children's biographies I've found!

My 3rd grader likes fantasy and adventure, but I've been adding some non-fiction books to his reading list. I didn't know if Harriet Tubman would interest him, I wanted him to learn about her, so I gave this one a try. It's WONDERFUL! It kept his attention and made him really care about what would happen to her. An adult could tell the author had done a great deal of research. There were direct quotes from Harriet herself and from what I could tell, every event in the book really happened. The book was so good that after reading it with my boy I ened up telling my wife about most of the amazing events it chronicled. Does your child have reading required for school each week? Get this one!

Follow the North Star to freedom!

I had this book when I was a child and I treasured it. This book introduced me to the life of Harriet Tubman, conductor on the underground railroad (she was so successful at helping people escape slavery that she had a price on her head), Civil War spy (an extremely dangerous undertaking when you consider that captured spies were executed), and servant to the poor. She instantly became my hero. The book is instructive without being preachy, and gave me a sense of Harriet Tubman's incredible strength of character, determination, and courage. In the pages of this book, I found a Great American. She has been a role model for me ever since I read this book. Consider giving this book as a gift to a child you love. The writing is easy to read, the illustrations are gripping, and the main character is a bona fide, real life, honest-to-goodness hero.

One of the Best Children's Books of All Time

I don't remember why I first picked this book up, but once I did, I couldn't put it down. I introduced the book to my teacher, and he became so interested in it that he read it to the class. The next time the class went to the school library, they borrowed all the copies of this book - 10 copies in all.The author has a way of making the reader feel like he or she is in the story - if not as Harriet Tubman, then as someone close to her.With all the junk being fed to kids nowadays, putting a book of this quality in front of them could pique their interest in reading.

A good book

The book I am reviewing is Wanted Dead or Alive by Ann McGovern. It was a good book I recomend it to anybody. It was a book about a girl who helps free thosands of slaves. It tells how she grew up as a slave and how they used to whip her mostly all the time. They even make her take care of a baby and if it cries they would beat her and she was only seven. It also tells you how she escaped and came back to free alot of slaves. This book was also about how they used to work for hours and not even get paid. I think that the author wanted to tell people how everybody should have freedom and rights. Instead of trying to fight for it because every body deserves freedom. I also think that the author was trying to tell the readers that even one person can make a difference, just like Harriet Tubman did when she led thousands of slaves to freedom. The thing that I like about it is that I only had to read A little bit of stuff and I found out alot of stuff. The things that I like this book is that it was a very good story. The good thing about this book is that it is not fake. It is a true story and it is hard to amagine the African americans being kidnapped, then they had to be slaves, they had to be in others peopole control and they were already free. It was a good book and again I recomend it to anybody its an exciting book read it.

Wanted Dead Or alive

I think that Wanted Dead or Alive was a very good book, because it talked about how Hariet Tubman saved lots of lifes from slavery. Then she saved slaves from beng sold to a diffrent owner. I think that the big idea is that Hariet Tubman escaped from slavery and still went back for more slaves and then just to help them have a better life. Then she lived the rest of her life in freedom. I think this book was very intense book because it talked about how Hariet Tubman saved lots of slaves and still went back for more. I think that the book was cool.