47 by Mosley, Walter 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2006)

BTSB #: 661523 Available

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.

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

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

BTSB #: 566039 Available

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

Genres:

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.