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1) Nightjohn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
5) Show way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Esperanca Garcia, a literate slave, was moved from a Jesuit cotton farm in Brazil to be a cook, away from her husband and some of her children and wrote a letter to the governor asking to be returned to the cotton farm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Eleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hackler's slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he's ever known, until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and, together, they run. The journey north seems much...
8) Steal away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls. Susannah, who hates slavery, is given a slave when she moves to Virginia to live with her uncle and his family. Best Books for Young Teen Readers. Two unhappy 13-year-old girls -- one a slave, the other a white orphan -- disguise...
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
11) Jip: his story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
12) Elijah of Buxton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Though her parents "jumped the broom" to get married when they were slaves, now that they are living free in Philadelphia after the Civil War they plan to have a church wedding and Addy works to complete a special quilt to give them as a wedding gift.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The magical world teeters on the brink of collapse. The Dragon King, Celebrant, has united the dragons into a vengeful army, and only a final artifact stands in the way of them unleashing their fury against humankind. With established allegiances shifting under the strain, Seth and Kendra find themselves in desperate need of new allies. Seth must face his most dangerous quest--the fulfillment of his pledge to the Singing Sisters. With only Calvin...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first enslaved Africans landed in North America in 1619 to begin a life of forced, unpaid labor, harsh living conditions, and cruel treatment. The Southern economy grew dependent on slave labor, and the terrible institution was not abolished until after the American Civil War. Although slavery ended almost 150 years ago in the United States, its legacies of racism, prejudice, and the struggle for equal treatment persist today. Celebrate Black...
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