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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Hetty "Handful" Grimké, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimké household. The Grimké's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. Over...
Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
While her sister fights to hold on to the family legacy, Louisa Highwood works tirelessly to save the lives of wounded soldiers. Putting her own safety on the line, she covertly ventures behind enemy lines to procure desperately needed supplies for the army hospital in Richmond, Virginia. Meanwhile, Jesselynn Highwood and her ragtag band of freed slaves and Thoroughbred horses seek refuge along the Oregon Trail, unable to imagine what awaits them....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town--with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry--whom Brown nicknames Little Onion--conceals his true identity as he...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving Ranaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
Author
Series
Shadow histories volume 1
Publisher
Redhook
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own. It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in France to the weather mage Toussaint L'Ouverture leading the slaves of Haiti in their fight for freedom, to the bold new Prime Minister William Pitt weighing the legalization of magic amongst commoners in Britain and abolition throughout its...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild--a one-armed, impassioned abolitionist--set out from Portsmouth to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A novel on 1855 Bloody Kansas, an armed clash between slaveholders and abolitionists, often referred to as a prologue to the Civil War. The heroine is Lidie Newton, the wife of a slain abolitionist. Dressed as a boy, she embarks on a mission of revenge against his killer. By the author of Moo.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry.
13) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Author
Series
Refiner's fire volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
During the Civil War, Caroline Fletcher, the daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family, is drawn into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.
Author
Series
Young patriots volume 13
Publisher
Patria Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Story of famous civil rights advocate and presidential advisor Frederick Douglass's early years.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Reluctant debutante Keziah Montgomery lives beneath the weighty expectations of her staunch Confederate family, forced to keep her epilepsy secret for fear of a scandal. As the tensions of the Civil War arrive on their doorstep in Savannah, Keziah sees little cause for balls and courting. Despite her discomfort, she cannot imagine an escape from her familial confines--until her old schoolmate Micah shows her a life-changing truth that sets her feet...
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this Limited Event Series based on the award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1100L
Language
English
Description
At the dedication of a school named after him, an old former slave tells the story of his life and how his white friend helped him earn the money for the school by repeatedly selling him into slavery, after which he always escaped.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In 1851 New Bedford, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Cape Verdean sailor Lucky Valera is kidnapped by his estranged half-brother and forced to work in a mill, but while Lucky is plotting his escape he meets a former slave and a young Quaker girl who influence his plans.
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