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61) Chains
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War
63) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
Author
Series
Shawn O'Brien series volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Shawn O'Brien looks for a missing boy in the Abaddon Cannon Foundry who employs men as slaves.
65) Caleb's choice
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While living in Texas in 1858, fourteen-year-old Caleb faces a dilemma in deciding whether or not to assist fugitive slaves in their run for freedom
66) Dream country
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Virgil Moody vows to never be like his father, a slaveowner. He moves from Savannah to New Orleans and takes Annie with him. While he comes to think of her as his wife, she reminds him they'll never be equal. When their son Lucas is taken from them, Moody will travel through a country on the brink of civil war searching for Lucas, while trying to reconcile his past sins.
Author
Series
Young Americans volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After having been a slave on Carter's Grove plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia, since childhood, Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"--
70) Rover
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildrensPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Captured by Vikings, young Hekja is taken as a slave to Greenland by the daughter of Erik the Red, and accompanied by no one from her homeland but her loyal dog, shares adventures with her new mistress, who is determined to make a name for herself as her father and brother have.
72) Tennessee Rose
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Although raised on a Southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War.
73) Docile
Author
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"There is no consent under capitalism. Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War
Author
Series
Outlaw Road volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The desolate canyons of Alcoro - and the people desperate enough to hide there - couldn't be more different from the opulent glass palace and lush forests of Moquoia. But the harsh desert and gleaming court are linked through their past, present, and future: a history of abductions in the desert to power Moquoia's quarries and factories, and a bleak, inhumane future built on the sweat and sacrifice of these bond laborers. But events unfolding in...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Zac never believed his grandfather's tales about their enslaved ancestors being descended from an African king, but when his grandfather is murdered and the villains come after Zac, he sets out for Ghana to find King Baktu's long-lost treasure before the murderers do
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
78) Yellow Crocus
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she...
Author
Series
Ballantyne novels volume prequel
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Augustus Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger, and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla - and destroying Chester. Camilla,...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Livy Prescott is a young wife dependent upon, beholden to, and manipulated by Celene, a slave. In 1860 Edward Prescott gallops into Livy Taylor's life racing his carriage down the main street of her tiny Pennsylvania town, winning a bet and her heart. After they wed, Livy is swept away to Merrywood, Edward's home in the hills of North Carolina. There Livy faces the daunting task of adjusting to her new life as Mistress of Merrywood and slave-owner....
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