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Series
Queen's thief volume 5
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. Set in the world of the Queen's Thief, this epic adventure sees an ordinary hero take on an extraordinary mission.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Norstad stood up to a swindler, but now he might lose the riverboat they all love.
"Sometimes there's a cost for doing the right thing," Captain Norstad stated. Will he and the other Freedom Seekers recover the stolen money before a double payment is due?
When the Freedom Seekers learn that Micah Parker has escaped and is running for the Mississippi River, they leave the Christina and take up the search. They
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Series
Mark of the thief volume 1
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.
Author
Series
Snow like ashes volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and possibly dangerous: Primoria's lost chasm of magic. Theron sees this find as an opportunity -- with this much magic, the world can finally stand against threats like Angra. But Meira fears the danger the chasm poses--the last time the world had access to so much magic, it spawned the Decay.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shadowy figure lurks on the dark riverfront near the 'Christina.' Libby Norstad is sure that it must be the cruel slave trader Riggs, who had vowed that no slave of his will ever escape alive. Does Riggs suspect that the runaway Jordan Parker is hiding on her pa's steamboat?
8) Ashes
Author
Series
Seeds of America volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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
Series
Dragonwatch volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kendra and Seth seek help from the Giant Queen as the war against dragons moves into Titan Valley, a magical realm of towering giants and enslaved dragons.
10) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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. Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back--came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment Nightjohn still retumed to slavery...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri. --Provided by publisher.
12) Miles' song
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.
13) The black key
Author
Series
Jewel volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Violet's sister Hazel has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake, and she must save both Hazel and the future of the Lone City.
Author
Series
American diaries volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While working as an indentured servant on a plantation in Virginia in 1749, thirteen-year-old Summer must prove her innocence when her master's daughter accuses her of stealing.
16) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every day, the plantation master rings the bell. Every day, Daddy gathers wood. Mama cooks. Brother Ben and the other slaves to out to the fields. Every day...until one day, the bell rings, and Ben is gone. Ben ran.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape. --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and while they do get special treatment - better work, better shoes, even violin lessons - they are still slaves, and are never to mention who their father is. The lighter-skinned children have been promised a chance to escape into white society, but what does this mean for the children who look more like their mother? As each child grows up,...
20) Tennessee Rose
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Although raised on a Southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War.
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