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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding citizens respected him. Bass always got his man, dead or alive. He achieved all this in spite of whites who didn't like the notion of a black lawman. The true story of former slave Bass Reeves, is the story of a remarkable African American hero of the Old West.
This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, ten-year-old Eli and other newly freed slaves gather to honor the memory of fallen Union soldiers, an event considered to be one of the first celebrations of what is now called Memorial Day. Includes author's note.
3) Forge
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
Author
Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old newly-freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.
Author
Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Gabriel, a former slave, leaves behind his life as a professional jockey and joins his father in the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry at Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
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