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English
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"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
Series
Mark of the thief volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017, 2018.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nicolas Calva has Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and he has hidden the dangerous Jupiter Stone, but he still has to find a way to defeat The Mistress, a dragon who contains the soul of the vestalis Atroxia, and who hates Rome, and save his mother and friends, and maybe even the Empire itself--and he is troubled by his sneaking sympathy for Atroxia, who was unjustly condemned.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Raisa, a slave since being kidnapped as a child, is chosen to become a tutor and learn a secret language, she is torn between her feelings for Prince Mati and her desire to help free her people.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
129 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1781 and George Washington is commanding thousands of troops in Yorktown, Virginia, on the brink of the most important battle of the war. You are James Armistead, a brave and literate enslaved person in Virginia. Marquis de Lafayette, one of Washington s key officers, approaches you with the most critical choice of your life: do you join the Revolutionary army as a top secret spy or find freedom on your own terms? As a spy for the revolution,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Imagine being looked up and down and being valued as less than a chair. Less than an ox. Less than a dress. Maybe about the same as... a lantern. You, an object. An object to sell. Ashley Bryan goes to the heart of how a slave is given a monetary value by the slave owner, tempering this with the one thing that CAN'T be bought or sold -- dreams. Inspired by the actual will of a plantation owner that lists the worth of each and every one of his "workers",...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.
Author
Series
Sons of Liberty volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
GN 550L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.
Author
Series
Great escapes volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winter 1838Kentucky. Determined to save her toddler son from being sold as a slave, the woman who became known as Eliza Harris trekked through the forest, in the dark of night with wild animals on her heels. Her goal: cross the Ohio River, the boundary between the North and the South, between slavery and freedom. Although the journey would be perilous, Eliza looked out at the treacherous frozen waters and quickly decided she couldnt let fear stop...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This story imagines what it was like when Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass got together for a cup of tea and discussed their struggle for civil rights.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 21cm
Language
English
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
13) Willow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.
15) A world away
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
315 pages : map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Taken from her mother and shipped to England as an exhibit for Sir Walter Raleigh, Nadie, a Native American, is thrust into the boiling pot of brutish Tudor life. Her only protector is Tom, a young blacksmith who falls in love with her. Too soon, however, Nadie is forced back to her exotic lands to help the English colonize her people.