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1) 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
Series
Dragonback volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jack and the dragon warrior Draycos face a diabolical and ruthless intergalactic slavemaster when Jack attempts to penetrate secret computer files about the cold-blooded underworld while posing as a slave.
3) Drought
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's alternate history classic, the United States has lost World War II and subsequently been divided between the Germans in the east and the Japanese in the west. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the beauracracy and of...
6) The raft
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An electrifying apocalyptic science fiction thriller, and the debut novel from a brand-new South African talent. "The day every person on earth lost his and her memory was not a day at all. In people's minds there was no actual event. . . and thus it could be followed by no period of shock or mourning. There could be no catharsis. Everyone was simply reset to zero." On Day Zero, the collapse of civilization was as instantaneous as it was inevitable....
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