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1) Jubilee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
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The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
4) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
Author
Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
7) 47
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
10) The bell rang
Author
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
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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.
15) White stag
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After a century of service to goblin lord Soren, Janneke, seventeen, the only mortal in the Permafrost, clings to her humanity as she faces difficult choices.
16) The Old African
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
An elderly slave uses the power of his mind to ease the suffering of his fellow slaves and eventually lead them back to Africa. Based on an actual incident from black history.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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