Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Slave Dancer

24 titles for readers of The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, selected for shared themes: 19th Century, African American & Black, People & Places, and Classics.

19th Century African American & Black People & Places Classics United States Historical Juvenile Fiction Fiction

Top related books to The Slave Dancer

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of The Slave Dancer.

Sounder — William H. Armstrong

William H. Armstrong

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

From Slave to Soldier Based on a True Civil War Story — Deborah Hopkinson

From Slave to Soldier Based on a True Civil War Story

Deborah Hopkinson

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Walking Home to Rosie Lee — A. LaFaye

Walking Home to Rosie Lee

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

They Call Me Teach Lessons in Freedom — Lesa Cline-Ransome

They Call Me Teach Lessons in Freedom

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Promises to the Dead — Mary Downing Hahn

Promises to the Dead

Mary Downing Hahn

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Away West — Patricia McKissack

Patricia McKissack

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky — Faith Ringgold

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Stone River Crossing — Tim Tingle

Stone River Crossing

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

The Drinking Gourd A Story of the Underground Railroad — F. N. Monjo

The Drinking Gourd A Story of the Underground Railroad

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Ida, in Love and in Trouble — Veronica Chambers

Ida, in Love and in Trouble

Veronica Chambers

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

A Day for Rememberin’ Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day — Leah Henderson

A Day for Rememberin’ Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Underground To Canada Puffin Classics Edition — Barbara Smucker

Underground To Canada Puffin Classics Edition

Barbara Smucker

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

The Door of No Return — Kwame Alexander

The Door of No Return

Kwame Alexander

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

John Henry An American Legend — Ezra Jack Keats

John Henry An American Legend

Ezra Jack Keats

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

The Wagon — Tony Johnston

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Ophie’s Ghosts — Justina Ireland

Ophie’s Ghosts

Justina Ireland

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Elijah of Buxton — Christopher Paul Curtis

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Barefoot Escape on the Underground Railroad — Pamela Duncan Edwards

Barefoot Escape on the Underground Railroad

Pamela Duncan Edwards

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Who Owns the Sun? — Stacy Chbosky

Who Owns the Sun?

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Up the Learning Tree — Marcia K. Vaughan

Up the Learning Tree

Marcia K. Vaughan

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

One Big Open Sky — Lesa Cline-Ransome

One Big Open Sky

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Crow — Barbara Wright

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

A Picture of Freedom The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl — Pat McKissack

A Picture of Freedom The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

Abraham’s Battle A Novel of Gettysburg — Sara H. Banks

Abraham’s Battle A Novel of Gettysburg

Themes: 19th Century • African American & Black • People & Places

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of 19th Century, African American & Black, People & Places — the same threads that run through The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox. Among the authors featured: William H. Armstrong, Deborah Hopkinson, A. LaFaye, Lesa Cline-Ransome, and others.

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