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Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
2) Homegoing
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
3) Kindred
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity.
May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children...
5) The Jewel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man." Today, however, Harriet Beecher Stowe's stirring indictment of slavery is often confused with garish dramatizations that flourished for decades after the Civil War: productions that relied heavily on melodramatic...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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
...10) Copper sun
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Coretta Scott King author award book : 2007.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reveals the hidden life of the 16th U.S. president, who was actually a vampire hunter, obsessed with the complete elimination of the undead, and uncovers the role vampires played in the birth, growth and near-death of the nation.
12) Beloved
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies...
14) The white rose
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
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"--
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