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62) Voyage of Slaves
Author
Series
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman volume 3
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless Barbary slave traders.
63) River runs deep
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad.
Author
Pub. Date
©1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Having learned from the father he admires so much that the world is filled with things too special for any one person to own, a boy is upset to hear that he and his father are owned by the man in the big house where they work.
67) Sky sash so blue
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The special sky blue sash that a young slave girl offers to give her older sister for her wedding dress becomes a tie that binds the family together when the sister moves away.
68) The bell rang
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 22
Description
When Octavian hears that Lord Dunmore, governor of Virginia, will free all slaves who join his "Ethiopian Regiment," the recent runaway gladly signs up. Upon enlisting, Octavian is reunited with his friend Pro Bono. The two comrades, who once shared a master, are thrilled to meet again, but their joy quickly subsides.
70) Freedom's fruit
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Mama Marina, a slave woman and conjurer in the Old South, casts a spell on her master's grapes as part of her plan to win freedom for her daughter Sheba and the man Sheba loves.
71) Never forgotten
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
72) Beneath the mask
Author
Series
Grassland trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After tasting freedom, the former slaves are soon back under the control of the menacing Spears, and this time Corki and Pippa are separated as Corki, in training to be a Spear, seeks a way to work within the system to gain freedom for himself and his friends.
75) Pioneer summer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Congress has ruled that settlers in Kansas Territory will decide whether Kansas will enter the Union as a free or a slave state. Charlie Keller's papa is an abolitionist, and he's moving the family to Kansas so he can cast his vote for freedom. Will Kansas ever feel like home to Charlie?
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young African American girl is sold away from her mother as a slave, and then later is sold to a Cherokee Indian, but eventually she is bought by a white man who not only sets her free, but adopts her into his family of fifteen children. Based on a true story; includes instructions for making a hollyhock doll.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
78) Jefferson's Sons
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
This story of Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, tells a darker piece of America's history from an often unseen perspective-that of three of Jefferson's slaves-including two of his own children. As each child grows up and tells his story, the contradiction between slavery and freedom becomes starker, calliing into question the real meaning of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This poignant story sheds
...Author
Series
Hitty's travels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
80) Willow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"In 1848, an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice--between bondage and freedom, family and love. On one side of the Mason-Dixon Line lives fifteen-year-old Willow, her master's favorite servant. She's been taught to read and has learned to write. She believes her master is good to her and fears the rebel slave runaways. On the other side of the line is seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, free born. It's his personal mission to sneak...