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2) Horse
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
3) Homegoing
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on original slave auction and plantation estate documents to contrast the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of the life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[c1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61p illus (part col)
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War ends, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1845, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the memoir of former slave turned abolitionist. The story recounts Douglass's life from early childhood growing up in Maryland as a slave to his eventual escape to the North. Learning to read and write served him well, as he would eventually use it to document the civil injustices of slavery in 19th century America and to craft his impassioned oratories against it.
10) Yellow crocus
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Right after Lisbeth is born she is handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie. As she grows older, Mattie and Lisbeth form a strong bond, but can they continue their relationship without consequences?
12) Freewater
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing Southerland Plantation with his little sister, twelve-year-old Homer finds a secret community called Freewater, created by formerly enslaved people, but when he learns of a threat that could destroy this place, he crafts a plan to help his new home.
Author
Series
Queen's thief volume 5
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire, but he is forced onto a different path that compels him to undertake a hero's mission.
14) The way of kings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
Author
Publisher
Viking Canada
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
334 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman recently arrived via...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the from of the Underground...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...