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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...
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xxv, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Culled from full-length autobiographies, the voices of ten slaves--all under the age of nineteen--describe the full range of slave experiences, from starvation, torture, and violence, to love, laughter, and family life.
6) Far North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2015?].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution--
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