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Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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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.
2) Freewater
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
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Queen's thief volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
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"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--
4) Show way
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
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"The magical world teeters on the brink of collapse. The Dragon King, Celebrant, has united the dragons into a vengeful army, and only a final artifact stands in the way of them unleashing their fury against humankind. With established allegiances shifting under the strain, Seth and Kendra find themselves in desperate need of new allies. Seth must face his most dangerous quest--the fulfillment of his pledge to the Singing Sisters. With only Calvin...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Stolen from her home, and being groomed for auction, Aya is desperate to escape her fate and return to her family, but her only allies are a loyal wolf she's raised from a pup and a strange mute boy who may be her best hope for freedom ... if she can truly trust him.
8) Nightjohn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
Author
Series
Mark of the thief trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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"Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets' Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not...
Author
Pub. Date
©1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Having learned from the father he admires so much that the world is filled with things too special for any one person to own, a boy is upset to hear that he and his father are owned by the man in the big house where they work.
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Winner's trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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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.
15) Stealing freedom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
16) Chains
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
17) Gabriel's horses
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Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
19) Jip, his story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
20) The Pox Party
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Series
Pub. Date
[2006-2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.