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Author
Series
Queen's thief volume 5
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--
62) Elijah of Buxton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
Author
Series
Mark of the thief trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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.
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Language
English
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Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's...
Author
Series
Ravenspire volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Javan Najafai, crown prince of Akram, has spent the last ten years at an elite boarding school, far away from his kingdom. But his eagerly awaited return home is cut short when a mysterious impostor takes his place and no one believes Javan is the true prince.
67) Lincoln's legacy
Author
Series
Blast to the past volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperacks
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Abigail and her friends travel to the past on an urgent mission when their time-traveling teacher returns from the mid-nineteenth century to report that President Abraham Lincoln is thinking about quitting, leaving the issue of slavery unresolved.
70) Long Walk Home
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
As an Arab Christian pilot for a relief organization, Paul Farid feels called to bring supplies to his war-torn countrymen in southern Sudan. But with constant attacks from Khartoum's Islamic government, the villagers have plenty of reasons to distrust Paul, and he wonders if the risks he's taking are really worth his mission.
American doctor Larson Kerr started working with the Sudanese people out of a sense of duty and has grown to love them...
American doctor Larson Kerr started working with the Sudanese people out of a sense of duty and has grown to love them...
Author
Language
English
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"The first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and tried three times to kill him when he was still...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.
Author
Series
Wind on fire volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Edition
1st Hyperion trade pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.
Author
Series
Dragonback volume 3
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jack and the dragon warrior Draycos face a diabolical and ruthless intergalactic slavemaster when Jack attempts to penetrate secret computer files about the cold-blooded underworld while posing as a slave.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Todd and Billy are attempting to reach Paradise Island, where there is rumored to be water that could save their people, when they are captured by sand pirates on a ship powered by slaves.
Author
Series
Cat Royal volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
His Majesty's Ship Courageous this present day calls all able bodied volunteers who desire great honor to serve in the Royal Navy.
77) Brady
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1960]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.
Author
Series
Cat Royal volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Catherine "Cat" Royal, an orphan who lives at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, rallies her friends to try to save Pedro from the clutches of Mr. Hawkins, a slavemaster who considers Pedro his property.
80) Starlighter
Author
Series
Dragons of Starlight volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jason Masters does not believe that dragons take people to another realm as slaves until his own brother is taken, but once through the portal he meets Koren, a slave struggling to destroy a black egg prophesied to doom all mankind.
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