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1) Kindred
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Zarité, who is known as Tété, born to an African mother she has never known and a white sailor, survives a brutal childhood and grows up to find comfort in the music and culture of her fellow slaves, and when Toulouse Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, both of their lives become intertwined in surprising ways, particularly when they both end up in New Orleans.
7) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
8) One red rose
Author
Series
Clayborne brides volume 3rd
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Adam Clayborne, an escaped slave who made a new life for himself and his family in Montana, is content with his life as a confirmed bachelor, taking refuge in books about distant lands, but he finds himself under siege when his mother introduces him to Genevieve Delacroix, a woman who shares his dream of seeing the world, but also knows the value of love.
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Language
English
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Some 120 years ago, Mark Twain left Huckleberry Finn's father dead in a room crowded with oddities: a wooden leg, women's underclothing, two black cloth masks, and more. Clinch's masterly debut draws from the nation's literary heritage to create this completely original story. Unabridged. 9 CDs.
10) The known world
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline....
13) Blood and sand
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Set in Ancient Rome, Blood and Sand reimagines Spartacus as a seventeen-year-old girl. When Attia is sold as a slave to the House of Timeus, no one knows she's actually the warrior princess of Thrace, and the last of her people. She is given to Xanthus, a fellow slave and gladiator champion of Rome, as a gift from his master. Attia and Xanthus begin to build a trust through their shared skill in combat and a driving desire to seek revenge on the Roman...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
From acclaimed author Nina Vida comes a powerful novel set in the 1840s. The Texicans provides an illuminating glimpse at the rugged lives of the downtrodden in pioneer society- immigrants, slaves, Indians, and Mexicans. Joseph Kimmel is heading to San Antonio to settle his deceased brother's estate but becomes stranded on the vast open prairie when his horse is stolen. He is rescued by an egocentric Alsatian immigrant, but falls back into trouble...
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