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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
When Martha Tom crosses the Bok Chitto River into the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory she meets Lil Mo, an enslaved boy whose mother is about to be sold, so Martha convinces Lil Mo's family to cross the river and be free.
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution. -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Charlie's dad just died, the share crops are dry, the most fearsome man in South Carolina has come to collect a debt. To pay him back, Charlie agrees to help him catch thieves. But then Charlie discovers he's chasing escaped slaves.
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Orion Children's Books
Language
English
Description
Recreates the siege of Mesada, and reveals important developments in Jonathan's struggle with his guilt over past events. Also, there's terrific insight into the workings of the Roman legal system in a page-turning court room drama.
8) Freedom bird
Author
Publisher
A Paula Wiseman book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Publisher
Ronsdale Press
Language
English
Description
"A young slave girl from South Carolina decides she will no longer be a slave and she persuades her family to make the journey north to Canada and freedom on the Underground Railroad. They are led by "Moses," the famous Harriet Tubman, and travel on foot, in buggies, on pushcarts and on paddle-wheelers until they reach Canada"--Publisher.
Author
Series
Strongbow saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite being the son of a chieftain and a princess, fourteen-year-old Halfdan lives as a slave in Denmark in A.D. 845 but through a tragic bargain he gains his freedom and sets out to claim his birthright.
11) Django unchained
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-top-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittlebrothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles--dead or alive. Success leads Schultz to free...
12) Bloodline rising
Author
Series
Bloodline trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Cai, a thief in seventh-century Constantinople, finds himself held captive on a trading ship bound for Britain--the home his father, a ruthless barbarian assassin, fled long ago--where he discovers that his Anglish captors know more about the secrets of his family than he does.
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