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21) Imprison the sky
Author
Series
Elementae volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Aspasia, eighteen, an Elementae who controls air, gets caught in a battle between Cyrus, who forces her to capture slaves for market, and a queen whose husband experiments on Elementae.
Author
Series
Lights of Lowell volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation. Tensions are high, and the lives of the slaves they've promised to protect hang in the balance"--Provided by publisher.
24) The plantation
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Across the country, people are being kidnapped. Jonathon Payne is following the clues from his girlfriend's disappearance to a New Orleans plantation and the South's most violent and shocking secret.
26) Palmares
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--
28) Steal away
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
29) Show way
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
30) The trap door
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy."--P....
31) Long Walk Home
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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...
33) The Black Key
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Jewel finds Violet and her Black Key society fellows preparing to seize power while fighting to secure her sister's freedom from the Duchess of the Lake.
34) Ashes
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
1944: a violent storm rips through No Creek, North Carolina exposing a hidden trunk and secrets dating back to the Civil War. Celia Percy suspects the truth could transform the future for her friend Marshall, who is now fighting overseas, but whose ancestors were once enslaved by the Belvidere family. Celia resolves to right a long-standing wrong, whether or not the town is ready for it. 1861: After her mother's death, Minnie Belvidere works frantically...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his...
39) Homegoing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Tells the story of a young girl's dramatic escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad, from the perspective of her beloved rag doll.
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