Calico Girl by Nolen, Jerdine 

Paperback(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 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.

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.