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TESTIFY: AMERICANA FROM SLAVERY TO TODAY, AN EXHIBIT OF ART AND ARTIFACTS FROM THE DIANE AND ALAN PAGE COLLECTION
2) Show way
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
3) 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reveals the hidden life of the sixteenth 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free. One, a woman named Ginny, has become Emily's companion and often her conscience - and understands all too well the hazards an educated slave must face. Yet even Ginny could not predict the tangled, tragic...
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 71
Language
English
Formats
Description
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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.
8) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
9) Sold
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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.
10) Better off dead
Author
Series
Shawn O'Brien series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shawn O'Brien looks for a missing boy in the Abaddon Cannon Foundry who employs men as slaves.
Author
Series
Lights of Lowell volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation. Tensions are high, and the lives of the slaves they've promised to protect hang in the balance"--Provided by publisher.
12) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
13) Freewater
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved...
Author
Publisher
Jump At The Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
15) The Glory Field
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
16) Dream of love
Author
Series
American dreams (Michael Phillips) volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A Southern family is torn apart by Civil War-and their convictions-in the final American Dreams novel from the author of Dream of Life. As the Civil War rages, plantation owners Richmond and Carolyn Davidson continue to follow the path God set out for them-as an important link in the Underground Railroad, helping runaway slaves flee to the Northern states. Meanwhile, their older son, Seth, is working as a war photographer for the North-and their younger,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. Stowe's moving Christian epic turned millions of Americans against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its fiery destruction.
18) Sweetsmoke
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter David Fuller spent eight years researching Sweetsmoke, in the process discovering that members of his family fought on both sides of the Civil War. Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master's favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war. When an old freedwoman who once saved Cassius from Hoke's wrath is killed, Cassius risks everything...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life of slavery in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.
20) The known world
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
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