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Having run up large debts, a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby faces the prospect of losing everything he owns. Though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, have a kindhearted and affectionate relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise money by selling two of his slaves to Mr. Haley, a coarse slave trader. The slaves in question are Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children on the farm, and Harry, the young son of Mrs. Shelby’s...
2) Freewater
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Author
Series
Lone city trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death, so along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude"--
Author
Series
Queen's thief volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mama and Papa Love have a child, the Invisible Princess, who saves them and the other plantation slaves from their cruel master so that they can all find happiness in the Invisible Village of Peace, Freedom, and Love.
Author
Series
Dragonwatch volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Departing from the underwater dragon preserve of Crescent Lagoon to seek help from the Giant Queen, Kendra and Seth arrive at Titan Valley, where dragons are kept as slaves and made to fight in a gladiator-style arena.
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English
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A breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler.
—One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
"Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine . . . Stunning." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her
...Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
11) To be a drum
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free.
12) Alta
Author
Series
Dragon jousters volume 2
Publisher
Daw Books Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
13) Blood road
Author
Series
Publisher
Month9Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After nineteen-year-old imperial officer Torien is assaulted by a local girl, he sets out to save her from being hanged and looks for answers on the Salt Road as citizens who challenge the government are being captured and sold across the desert.
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books/Knopf
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
15) Powers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his own psychic abilities.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a tale of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship Amistad describing her capture, her witness to a mutiny, and the Supreme Court trial that prompts her return to Africa.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
18) Homegoing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Even though Mama is an agent on the Underground Railroad, in order to help others she must remain a slave, but she teaches her daughter the value of freedom through a gift of love and sacrfice.
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