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058952
Forge [Seeds Of America Trilogy Volume: [2]]by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012)

BTSB #: 058952 Available

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

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Soldiers - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Freedmen - Fiction Slavery - Fiction 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.


7.37 *

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678702
Freedom bird by Nolen, Jerdine 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 678702 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-9   
AR: 4.4 LG Lexile: 780

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Fugitive slaves - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Freedom - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.


22.58 *

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164331
Freedom over me : eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life by Bryan, Ashley 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 164331 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.5 3-5 Lexile: 730

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away.


590902
Freewater by Luqman-Dawson, Amina 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 590902 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life Adventure Fiction


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Communities - Fiction


Summary: 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.


21.88 *

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590903
Freewater by Luqman-Dawson, Amina 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2023)

BTSB #: 590903 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life Adventure Fiction


Subjects: Large print books African Americans - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Siblings - Fiction


Summary: 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. In large print hardcover format.


23.24 *

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590907
Freewater by Luqman-Dawson, Amina 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2023)

BTSB #: 590907 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life Adventure Fiction


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Communities - Fiction


Summary: 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.


7.37 *

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P09165
Freewater : Amina Luqman-Dawson by Luqman-Dawson, Amina 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2022)

BTSB #: P09165 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Siblings - Fiction


Summary: 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.


75.99 *

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678808
Hope's path to glory : the story of a family's journey on the Overland Trail by Nolen, Jerdine 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023)

BTSB #: 678808 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Adventure Fiction


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Overland journeys to the Pacific - History|y19th century - Fiction


Summary: When a slave-owning family decides to go to California to mine for gold, twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother calls her Hope, travels with them, which ultimately leads her on a journey to freedom.


22.58 *

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P01641
Jefferson's sons : a founding father's secret children by Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01641 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas,|d1743-1826 - Fiction Hemings, Sally - Fiction Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Monticello (Va.) - Fiction Virginia - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction


Summary: A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.


P02648
Jewel by Ewing, Amy 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02648 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: General Fiction


Subjects: Courts and courtiers - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Surrogate mothers - Fiction Social classes - Fiction Love - Fiction Magic - Fiction


Summary: In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison.


66.49 *

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253869
Journey of little Charlie by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 253869 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 7.5 6-8 Lexile: 960

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Sharecroppers - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction South Carolina - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction United States - History|y19th century - Fiction


Summary: 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.


P04040
Journey of little Charlie by Curtis, Christopher Paul 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P04040 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Sharecroppers - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction South Carolina - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction United States - History|y19th century - Fiction


Summary: When his sharecropper father is killed, leaving the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie makes a deal to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of fugitives.


52.24 *

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924813
Kin : rooted in hope by Weatherford, Carole Boston 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2023)

BTSB #: 924813 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 7 MG F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Novels in verse African Americans - Fiction Family life - Fiction Slavery - fiction Maryland - History - Fiction


Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.


23.28 *

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178377
Kindred [Black Women Writers Series]by Butler, Octavia E. 

Paperback(Beacon Press, 2003)

BTSB #: 178377 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 580

Subjects: African American women - Fiction Time travel - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Slaves - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction Southern States - Fiction


Summary: Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end.


13.12 *

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P01040
Let freedom ring! : stories about freedom in America

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2010)

BTSB #: P01040 Available

Dewey: 810.8/NAges: 5-8   


Subjects: Brown, Henry Box,|db. 1816 - Fiction Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865 Douglass, Frederick,|d1818-1895 Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865.|tGettysburg address Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Presidents United States - History


Summary: A collection of children's stories about freedom and slavery in America.


42.74 *

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311474
Lion Island : Cuba's warrior of words by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 311474 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 6.8 MG Lexile: 1110

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Chuffat Latour, Antonio,|d1860- - Childhood and youth - Fiction Novels in verse Racially mixed people - Fiction Indentured servants - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Chinese - Cuba - Fiction Cuba - History|y1810-1899 - Fiction


Summary: 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.


639795
Long road to freedom [Ranger in time Volume: 3]by Messner, Kate 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2016)

BTSB #: 639795 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.5 3-5 Lexile: 620

Genres: Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Golden retrievers - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Underground Railroad - Fiction Time travel - Fiction Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Adventure fiction Maryland - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction


Summary: #3: This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the Underground Railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.


639827
Long road to freedom [Ranger in time Volume: 3]by Messner, Kate 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2016)

BTSB #: 639827 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.5 3-5 Lexile: 620

Subjects: Golden retrievers - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Underground Railroad - Fiction Time travel - Fiction Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Adventure fiction Maryland - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction


Summary: #3: This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the Underground Railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.


4.91 *

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676468
Mark of the thief [Mark of the thief Volume: bk. 1]by Nielsen, Jennifer A. 

Paperback(Scholastic Press, 2015)

BTSB #: 676468 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 4.5 6-8

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Magic - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Amulets - Fiction Insurgency - Fiction Rome - Antiquities - Fiction Rome - History|yEmpire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. - Fiction


Summary: Book one--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.


8.19 *

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P02841
Mark of the thief by Nielsen, Jennifer A. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2015)

BTSB #: P02841 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Magic - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Amulets - Fiction Insurgency - Fiction Rome - Antiquities - Fiction Rome - History|yEmpire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. - Fiction


Summary: 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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