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21) The trap door
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy."--P....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lu Wonder, a bright, curious girl who hopes to be a scientist, sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger...
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
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
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
28) Imprison the sky
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
418 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aspasia, eighteen, an Elementae who controls air, gets caught in a battle between Cyrus, who forces her to capture slaves for market, and a queen whose husband experiments on Elementae.
Aspasia, an Elementae who controls air, was stolen from her family as a child. She captains her own trading vessel-- and risks it all every time she uses magic to free as many women, children, and Elementae from slavery as she can. Cyrus knows Aspasia is searching...
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
30) The Old African
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An elderly slave uses the power of his mind to ease the suffering of his fellow slaves and eventually lead them back to Africa. Based on an actual incident from black history.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they set out on Sherman's long march through Georgia during the Civil War. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them forever and that freedom lies ahead. When she meets Caleb, an enigmatic young black man also on the march, Mariah soon finds herself dreaming not only of a new life, but of true love as well. But even hope comes at a cost, and as the...
32) Tennessee Rose
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 9
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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.
33) The white rose
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in 1865, a young girl named Lettie saves her money so she and her uncle can place an advertisement to find the members of their family that were separated under slavery.
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a war mongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.
38) Forge
Author
Series
Seeds of America volume 2
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Henry Brown copes with slavery by singing, but after his wife and children are sold away he is left with only his freedom song, which gives him strength when friends put him in a box and mail him to a free state.
40) Ashes
Author
Series
Seeds of America volume 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state" --