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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Now that her father is dead, CeCe McGill is left to wonder why he risked his life for the ragged slaves who came to their door in the dead of night. When her uncle, an ornithologist, insists she accompany him to Georgia on an expedition in search of the rare scarlet ibis, CeCe is surprised to learn there's a second reason for their journey: Along the way, Uncle Alex secretly points slaves north in the direction of the Underground Railroad. Set against...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After serving Martha Washington loyally for twenty years, Oney Judge realizes that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Gulliver Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen year old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll amoung her family and friends and along with a startling revelation about her own background, come to understand to the true nature of war.
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