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Author
Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old newly-freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York.
2) Forge
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
WOULD YOU RISK EVERYTHING to be free? THE YOUNG SOLDIERS at Valley Forge are suffering from hunger, cold, and the threat of the British army. Their newly forged bonds of friendship might be enough to help them survive. But the chains of Curzon's past threaten to shackle him again. Surrounded by the fires of ignorance, mistrust, and greed, Curzon can't risk sharing his deadly secrets with anyone. Does he have the mettle to hold on to his freedom?...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damagethose events caused to the survivors.
Author
Publisher
Pineapple Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
On Amelia Island in Spanish-ruled Florida in 1813, a treasure hunt causes trouble for ten-year-old Mary and her racially-mixed family, whose freedom is being threatened by Patriots from nearby Georgia despite the best efforts of Mary's mother, an African princess called Ana Jai Kingsley.
Author
Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Gabriel, a former slave, leaves behind his life as a professional jockey and joins his father in the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry at Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons.
North Carolina, 1863. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. This is where the March family has finally...
7) Willow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, ten-year-old Eli and other newly freed slaves gather to honor the memory of fallen Union soldiers, an event considered to be one of the first celebrations of what is now called Memorial Day.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.
10) Fires of jubilee
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Abby Joyner continues to live with her grandparents on the isolated Virginia plantation where she was raised, although they are now free. Abby's main concern is discovering what became of her mother, who disappeared when Abby was a baby.
Author
Publisher
Pacific Press Pub. Association
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1860 Michigan, as twelve-year-old Zach and his father become involved in a new, unnamed church and befriend neighbors who are freed slaves, they have conflicts with townspeople and with Zach's mother, a Baptist from Georgia.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems...