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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 x 28 cm.
Description
Henry Brown copes with slavery by singing, but after his wife and children are sold away he is left with only his freedom song, which gives him strength when friends put him in a box and mail him to a free state.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
43) The Fire of Ares
Author
Series
Spartan quest volume 1
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When slaves rebel in ancient Sparta, twelve-year-old Lysander, guarded by an heirloom amulet, the Fire of Ares, is caught between the Spartan ruling class, with whom he has been training as a warrior since his noble heritage was revealed, and those among whom he was recently laboring as a slave.
Author
Series
Spartan quest volume 2
Publisher
Walker Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When Persians invade Sparta while thirteen-year-old Lysander is training to be a soldier, he finds his loyalties are divided between Spartan honor and the Helot slaves with whom he lived most of his life.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
225 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
When Molly, a ten-year-old orphan, is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731, she is banished to America and serves as an indentured servant for a New York City family that expects her to follow their Jewish traditions.
46) Dream country
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
335 pages, 21 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and 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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Formats
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
Series
Mark of the thief trilogy volume 3
Formats
Description
Nicolas Calva has Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and he has hidden the dangerous Jupiter Stone, but he still has to find a way to defeat The Mistress, a dragon who contains the soul of the vestalis Atroxia, and who hates Rome, and save his mother and friends, and maybe even the Empire itself--and he is troubled by his sneaking sympathy for Atroxia, who was unjustly condemned.
50) The wedding gift
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah, her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be--with ambitions of loving whom she chooses--and Sarah equally hides behind the facade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
357 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Pip, a young boy who can speak to fish, and his sister Kinchen set off on a great adventure, joined by twins with magical powers, refugees fleeing post-war Vietnam, and some helpful sea monsters"--
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Description
Lu Wonder, a bright, curious girl who hopes to be a scientist, sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.
55) 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.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Description
"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"What if you suddenly found yourself in Addy Walker's world in the middle of the Civil War? Join Addy on adventures as you outrun a slave catcher, raise money for soldiers, and search for Addy's family. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options in this multiple-ending story"--
58) 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
Formats
Description
"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
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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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