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1) Dread nation
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Dread nation volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-- derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. But it's not a life Jane wants. When families...
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Dread nation volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America. What's more, this safe haven is not what it appears -...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey cannot wait to join the Army and defend the Union against the dreaded Colonel Watie, but when he is assigned to infiltrate the enemy camp as a spy, he discovers the rebels are boys and men just like him, and he must then decide whether to betray his enemies or join them.
4) Juba!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba; includes historical note.
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"In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the Southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West"--
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Having traveled back in time and having survived the Great Hinckley Fire, Addie Ever's desire for adventure should be more than satisfied. However, after reading an historical account at the library that reveals the true fate of Thomas and Judith Markham after the fire, Addie finds herself drawn back to the past in an effort to save them from certain death. What awaits her as she re-enters 1894, is definitely not what she expected...
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Civil War Espionage in London
As the British government shills for the Confederacy, Sixteen year old Walker Grist is tasked by the Union to infiltrate a house in London. A Confederate scientist, known to reside there, is developing an improved underwater mine, or what is known as a torpedo. Walker is trained as a spy by the Union. Then, disguised as Max Lane, an art student from the Confederacy, he travels to London. He must determine how the new...
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In a cross between fantasy and realism, Roots Four Zero is about a fourteen-year-old slave girl called Zero. Her master named her Zero because he thought of her as a nothing. One day Zero finally finds the courage to run away and decides to find her roots. She enters a world of the unknown and the unsafe as a fugitive slave. She soon makes friends with a beautiful and benevolent butterfly lady named Azina, who shows her how to find her roots in the...
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In 1859, a young girl loses an article of clothing she has borrowed from her Mother without permission when she and her friends attempt to recover it she uncovers her parent's secrets; one of them is their involvement in the Underground Railway, another is her Father's God Machine. When she uncovers a plot to burn her own church down which is known for harboring fugitive slaves, she enlists to assistance of a neighborhood gang of ruffians to find...
11) Josephine
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Josephine 'Jojo' Best has it all figured out. Just seventeen, she's been to college, she has her own hairdressing shop and nothing will distract her from her goals. That is, until handsome George Brooks begins to pursue her. Then the return of her childhood nemesis complicates her life even further!
No girl is immune to Adam Morgan's charm. But when a wound brings him home from the War Between the States, it's a girl he used to call "Pest" who's...
No girl is immune to Adam Morgan's charm. But when a wound brings him home from the War Between the States, it's a girl he used to call "Pest" who's...
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"...action-filled, tightly written prose. Realistic battle scenes illustrate the senselessness of war...the story offers a fresh take on the conflict - the idea of Canada as refuge for fugitive slaves and the irony of how it was nearly drawn into the war on the side of the South."- Albany Public Library, NY
Nate MacGregor knows he must fight for his Southern homeland in the coming Civil War, but for his cousin Walt in Canada West it's not so simple....
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"This riveting look at the Civil War's horrifying Andersonville prison through the eyes of an 18-year-old inmate has the power to shock and to compel…a tension-filled story packed with appalling events that really happened...This engrossing novel leaves an enduring impression." (Kirkus Reviews)
After the older brother he worshipped is killed in battle, Jake Clay joins the Union Army in the spring of 1864, determined to do his bit and honor his...
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Visions of the past, an antique journal, and a forgotten girl may not be the only barriers between Adelaide Anson and the truth about her parents' deaths.
After joining the Red Rose Society, a secret order composed of the descendants of historical figures, Adelaide searches to unravel the mystery that destroyed her life. With the help of her fellow Kindred, some figures from the past, and her emerging ability to see fragments of history in objects...
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2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.
16) Ebb Tide
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Will Emily find the courage to make one final bid for love and freedom?When the Union navy fires on Charleston, Emily must flee to Ella Wood-and to a father who has never forgiven her for attending the Maryland Institute against his will. There, she grapples with Jack's secret plans for the plantation and his final admonition that she carry them to fruition. But as a woman under the authority of her father, evoking even the slightest change may prove...
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Includes all three books in the Ella Wood trilogy:ELLA WOODAs slavery pushes the nation toward civil war, Emily must battle her father in her own bid for freedom. She's prepared to pay any price to escape the plantation and attend a northern university newly opened to women. Meanwhile Thaddeus Black, her handsome and unwanted suitor, simply won't take no for an answer. While her mind is willing to strike out alone, her heart stubbornly refuses to...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
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English
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Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical notes.
19) The Last April
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Spontaneous, fifteen-year-old Gretchen vows to help heal the nation from the recently ended Civil War. On the morning of President Lincoln's death, Gretchen finds an amnesiac Confederate in her garden and believes this is her chance for civic goodwill.But reconciliation is not as simple as Gretchen assumed. When her mother returns from the market with news that a Confederate murdered the president, Gretchen wonders if she caught the killer. Tensions...
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Lottie Moon is determined to break free from the predictable life of a good Baptist girl in antebellum Virginia and follow her dreams for adventure. As tensions between the North and South boil into civil war and abolitionists and women fight for their freedom, everything is starting to change. But will opportunities change fast enough for Lottie, or will she be left behind?
Follow Lottie's transformative journey that will take her from being a young...
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