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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The famous journey of Tom Sawyer's friend Huck Finn, along the Mississippi River.
When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is also running away. Together, they travel by raft down the Mississippi, tumbling in and out of amazing adventures -- from a floating house to a funeral, a shipwreck to a circus -- and experience some of the strange ways of people in the Deep South.
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"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
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Henry Townsend, a former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor--William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as his own slaves. Henry tragically fails to understand the fundamental flaws in his thinking that he can be a better slave master than a white man.
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English
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March, 1850. In the tense days before the Civil War, a slave breakout in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore sets loose a riveting drama of violence, hope, and redemption among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz Spocott, a beautiful runaway slave, shot and near death, is wracked by disturbing visions of the future as she lies shackled to an old woman in the prison attic of the notorious...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
"Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of plantation labour. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation; the Southern...
14) The red comb
Author
Publisher
BridgeWater Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In mid-nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, an old woman and a young village girl conspire to save a runaway African slave by passing her off as the woman's niece.
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Language
English
Description
"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
19) Dream of freedom
Author
Series
American dreams volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
"It's a time when men, women, and children are herded and sold like cattle. A time of broken spirits and divided families. Lucindy Eaton. A slave determined to raise her children in freedom. Denton Beaumont. An ambitious man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Richmond Davidson. A man of faith destined to change the world. ... Yet even in the midst of a nation's turmoil, a few will stand. A few will fight. And one man will make a decision...
Author
Series
Mark of the lion volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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