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Series
Lone city trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For too long, Violet and the people of the outer circles of the Lone City have lived a life of servitude, controlled and manipulated by the royalty of the Jewel. But now, the secret society known as the Black Key is preparing to seize power and knock down the walls dividing each other. And while Violet knows she is at the center of this rebellion, she has a more personal stake in it - for her sister, Hazel, has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake....
4) The gauntlet
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Cora and her friends have escaped the Kindred station and landed at Armstrong a supposed safe haven on a small moon-where they plan to regroup and figure out how to win the Gauntlet, the challenging competition to prove humanity's intelligence and set them free. But Armstrong is no paradise; ruled by a power-hungry sheriff, it's a violent world where the teens are enslaved and put to work in mines. as Nok's due date grows closer, and Mali and Leon...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
6) Sold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid, only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death, so along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Laura Dyson's seventh grade history teacher schedules a class trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's Texas farm, Laura is forced to come to terms with her family's past and what it means for her future.
10) 47
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
12) Lincoln's legacy
Author
Series
Blast to the past volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Third graders travel through time to keep history on track! Abigail loves Mondays, and so does the rest of class 305. That's the day Mr. Caruthers asks them cool questions about history. Today Mr. C asks, "What if Abraham Lincoln never freed the slaves?" Abigail and her friends are ready to put on their thinking caps. But this time Mr. C wants them to do more than put their heads together--he wants them to travel back in time! Turns out the "What...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1793, fifteen-year-old Eugenie de la Roque, her family, and other nobles barely escape the French Revolution and arrive in Pennsylvania, where homesick young Hannah Kimbrell, a Shaker, is among those charged with preparing New France for the aristocrats' arrival.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl who serves as letter writer for her blind stepmother is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest slave uprisings in the history of America.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1851, thirteen-year-old Cecilia has her eyes opened to the horrors of slavery when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in search of the rare "Scarlet Ibis," and watches as he shows slaves the way to the Underground Railroad.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
19) The Pox party
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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