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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death, so along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude--
Author
Series
The winner's trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
4) Homegoing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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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...
6) The jewel
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jay Marinitch, a young vampire hunter, may be Earth's best hope for thwarting the rise of a vampire-controlled slave empire called Midnight, despite his fear that those who question his worth may be right.
10) Kindred
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative...
13) Copper sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louisiana, 1843: a German immigrant thinks she recognizes a young slave girl as the long-lost daughter of her German friend, but the girl has no memory of such a past, and her owner refuses to free her. In novelistic detail, historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an infernal motley crew of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. The dramatic trial offers...
15) Kindred
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
vi, 255 pages : chiefly illustrations, chiefly color ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
-- Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly is a remarkable work of scholarship that explores the legacy of slavery and sheds new light on the Lincoln White House.
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