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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1320L
Language
English
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The autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a remarkable orator and former slave who pressed for equality and black community.
"Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition for his many accomplishments. In simply written...
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English
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"Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup decided to publish this gripping autobiographical account of his captivity. As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
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The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
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Ember in the ashes novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 680L
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English
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Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the martial emprie, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and boides to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire's impovereished backstreets. They do not challenge...
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Ember in the ashes novel volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Beyond the Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger as the Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, Laia of Serra, and Elias Veturius all face increasing dangers.
The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power... the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance. Far to the east, Laia...
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Strongbow saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Despite being the son of a chieftain and a princess, fourteen-year-old Halfdan lives as a slave in Denmark in A.D. 845 but through a tragic bargain he gains his freedom and sets out to claim his birthright. Annotation. A young man only at peace when he is at war Young Halfdan is a slave. He is crafty with a bow and arrow and wise in the ways of the animals, but he can only dream of a warrior's life. That is, until the dark day a Saxon's blows lay...
11) The lost quilter
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Language
English
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Master quilter Sylvia Compson discovers a stash of letters in the attic of Elm Creek Manor and traces a tale back to 1859. An escaped slave, Joanna, spent a brief period at Elm Creek Farm until she was captured and returned to bondage, leaving her son in the care of the Bergstrom family. If Sylvia is to determine the fate of Joanna and her son, she must rely on one important clue-- the meticulous heirloom quilt Joanna stitched and left behind.
12) Slave narratives
Series
Library of America volume 114
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lilith was born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they--and she--will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings...
15) Empress
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Godspeaker volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery, Hekat is taken to Mijak's largest city, where she grows into a beautiful and determined woman, driven by ambition, ingenuity, and fierce dreams of success to become powerful enough to take over as ruler of Mijak.
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English
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Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. A man who, twelve years later, is being sold by his owners despite his heroic actions. Now nineteen, Adria has never forgotten what Louis did for her. She's determined to find...
18) Heart of courage
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Series
Viking quest volume 4
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
In the tenth century, as Devin, Keely, and Lil return to Ireland, Bree serves as Mikkel's cook on a voyage in the North Atlantic, but acts of sabotage threaten Mikkel's life and Bree's one chance of freedom.
19) Stand the storm
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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Struggling for survival in a lawless Washington neighborhood after buying their freedom, Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, operate a tailor shop and laundry while battling with their former owner, assisting escaped slaves, and preparing for imminent war.
