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661523
47 by Mosley, Walter 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2006)


Publication Date: 11/01/2006

BTSB #: 661523 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 5.2 9-12 Lexile: 860 F&P: X

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Plantation life - Fiction Freedom - Fiction Magic - Fiction Georgia - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction


Summary: Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.


9.83 *

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058868
Ashes [Seeds Of America Trilogy Volume: [3]]by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2017)


Publication Date: 03/08/2017

BTSB #: 058868 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.6 MG Lexile: 820

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Large print books United States - History|y1775-1783, Revolution - Fiction


Summary: 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. Large print hardcover format.


25.10 *

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058941
Ashes [Seeds Of America Trilogy Volume: [3]]by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017)


Publication Date: 08/29/2017

BTSB #: 058941 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.6 MG RC: 5.4 6-8 Lexile: 820

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction United States - History|y1775-1783, Revolution - Fiction


Summary: 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.


7.37 *

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739504
Bell rang by Ransome, James 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)


Publication Date: 01/15/2019

BTSB #: 739504 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 1.8 LG RC: 2.2 K-2 Lexile: 360

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Fiction


Summary: A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.


23.08 *

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863492
Bitter side of sweet by Sullivan, Tara 

Paperback(Speak, 2017)


Publication Date: 06/06/2017

BTSB #: 863492 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Black people - Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction


Summary: 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.


10.65 *

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863495
Bitter side of sweet by Sullivan, Tara 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2016)


Publication Date: 02/23/2016

BTSB #: 863495 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Black people - Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction


Summary: 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.


23.08 *

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678692
Calico Girl by Nolen, Jerdine 

Paperback(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018)


Publication Date: 02/13/2018

BTSB #: 678692 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 720

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Family life - Virginia - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Fiction


Summary: Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day.


7.37 *

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058899
Chains [Seeds Of America Trilogy Volume: [1]]by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2017)


Publication Date: 03/08/2017

BTSB #: 058899 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 4.7 6-8 Lexile: 780 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Large print books Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Spies - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1775-1783, Revolution - Fiction


Summary: After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. Large print hardcover format.


23.24 *

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058968
Chains [Seeds Of America Trilogy Volume: [1]]by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Paperback(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010)


Publication Date: 01/05/2010

BTSB #: 058968 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 4.7 6-8 Lexile: 780 F&P: Z

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Spies - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1775-1783, Revolution - Fiction


Summary: After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.


7.37 *

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827081
Charlotte spies for justice : a Civil War survival story [Girls Survive]by Smith, Nikki Shannon 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2020)


Publication Date: 08/01/2019

BTSB #: 827081 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG Lexile: 660

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Cousins - Fiction Spies - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Adventure fiction Confederate States of America - Fiction Virginia - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Fiction United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Fiction


Summary: In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, but her enthusiasm may endanger them all--or help free 400 Union soldiers who are being moved from Richmond further south.


8.19 *

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290488
Copper sun by Draper, Sharon M. 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006)


Publication Date: 01/01/2008

BTSB #: 290488 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.2 UG RC: 4.8 9-12 Lexile: 820

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Contract labor - Fiction South Carolina - History|y1600-1775, Colonial period - Fiction Florida - History - Fiction


Summary: Two girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.


10.65 *

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290495
Copper sun by Draper, Sharon M. 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006)


Publication Date: 01/15/2006

BTSB #: 290495 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.2 UG RC: 4.8 9-12 Lexile: 820

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Contract labor - Fiction South Carolina - History|y1600-1775, Colonial period - Fiction Florida - History - Fiction


Summary: Two girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.


24.48 *

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P02562
Curses and smoke : a novel of Pompeii by Shecter, Vicky 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)


Publication Date: 06/01/2014

BTSB #: P02562 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Gladiators - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Love - Fiction Vesuvius (Italy) - Eruption, 79 - Fiction Pompeii (Extinct city) - Fiction


Summary: Tagus is a medical slave who wants to be a gladiator, Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner and betrothed to an older man, and the two teenagers are in love with each other--but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever.


56.99 *

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566039
Day of tears : a novel in dialogue by Lester, Julius 

Paperback(Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2005)


Publication Date: 03/20/2007

BTSB #: 566039 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 4.8 MG+RC: 5.6 6-8 Lexile: NP

Subjects: Butler, Pierce,|d1807-1867 Slavery - Fiction Plantation life - Fiction United States - History|y1783-1865


Summary: A fictionalized account of the largest slave auction in American history and its aftermath.


8.19 *

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512071
Do you know them? by Keller, Shana 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2024)


Publication Date: 01/09/2024

BTSB #: 512071 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
F&P: R

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Family life - Fiction Advertising - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: 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.


23.78 *

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253829
Elijah of Buxton by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2007)


Publication Date: 02/01/2009

BTSB #: 253829 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 7.8 3-5 Lexile: 980 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Freedom - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Black people - Fiction North Buxton (Ont.) - Fiction Canada - Fiction


Summary: In 1860, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, tries to bring to justice a preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.


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253846
Elijah of Buxton by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2007)


Publication Date: 10/15/2007

BTSB #: 253846 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 7.8 3-5 Lexile: 980 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Freedom - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Black people - Fiction North Buxton (Ont.) - Fiction Canada - Fiction


Summary: In 1860, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, tries to bring to justice a preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.


24.48 *

P00424
Elijah of Buxton by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)


Publication Date: 03/28/2008

BTSB #: P00424 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Freedom - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Black people - Canada - Fiction North Buxton (Ont.) - History|y19th century - Fiction Canada - History|y1763-1867 - Fiction


Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.


591549
Ellen's broom by Lyons, Kelly Starling 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2012)


Publication Date: 01/15/2012

BTSB #: 591549 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 4.5 LG RC: 2.4 K-2 Lexile: 610 AD

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Marriage - Fiction Brooms and brushes - Fiction Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: The broom hanging on the family's cabin wall is a special symbol of Ellen's parents' wedding during slave days, so she carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.


22.38 *

058898
Forge [Seeds Of America Trilogy Volume: [2]]by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2017)


Publication Date: 03/08/2017

BTSB #: 058898 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.4 MG Lexile: 820

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Soldiers - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Freedmen - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Large print books United States - History|y1775-1783, Revolution - Fiction


Summary: Separated from his friend Isabel after escaping from slavery, Curzon, 15, serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel meet again, as slaves once more. Large print hardcover format.


23.24 *

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