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Author
Series
Elementae volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
416 pages cm
Description
Aspasia, eighteen, an Elementae who controls air, gets caught in a battle between Cyrus, who forces her to capture slaves for market, and a queen whose husband experiments on Elementae.
2) Kindred
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Series
Description
Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
Author
Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Description
When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and possibly dangerous: Primoria's lost chasm of magic. Theron sees this find as an opportunity -- with this much magic, the world can finally stand against threats like Angra. But Meira fears the danger the chasm poses -- the last time the world had access to so much magic, it spawned the Decay.
5) Freedom bird
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Description
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Set in 1865, a young girl named Lettie saves her money so she and her uncle can place an advertisement to find the members of their family that were separated under slavery.
10) Snow like ashes
Author
Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
422 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Description
Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
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Description
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
176 pages cm
Description
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
15) Forge
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
297 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
16) Ashes
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
Author
Series
Appears on list
Description
Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
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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.
19) Chains
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
Formats
Description
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn't bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington. As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of...
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