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The Whipping Boy
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Sid Fleischman |
***A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!"***
**A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep.** "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done… |
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The Legend of Bass Reeves
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Dion Graham,Gary Paulsen |
Born into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West.
Many "heroic lawmen" of the Wild West, familiar to us through television and film, were actually violent scound… |
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Sarny, a life remembered
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Gary Paulsen |
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-fou… |
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Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
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Patricia McKissack |
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War. |
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On the wings of the west wind
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Joni Eareckson Tada |
Marcus has been a slave his entire life, dreaming of freedom, until the day a boy arrives on the wings of the west wind with a message from another master, the King. |
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Gabriel's Horses
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Alison Hart |
In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey. |
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Good fortune
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Noni Carter |
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's h… |
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Sky sash so blue
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Elizabeth Hathorn |
The special sky blue sash that a young slave girl offers to give her older sister for her wedding dress becomes a tie that binds the family together when the sister moves away. |
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Fight for freedom
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Susan Champlin |
In 1861, a young slave named Sam escapes to search for his father, who has been conscripted into the Confederate army, and makes his way to a northern city, while back at the Virginia plantation wher… |
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The Laura Line
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Crystal Allen |
When Laura Dyson's seventh grade history teacher schedules a class trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's farm, Laura is forced to come to terms with her family's past and what it means for her… |
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Snow like ashes
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Sara Raasch |
Meira, a warrior in training and one of eight free citizens of the Kingdom of Winter following the kingdom's defeat sixteen years ago, sets out on a dangerous journey to uncover a magic talisman that… |
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Day of Tears
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Julius Lester |
In this masterpiece of historical fiction, award-winning novelist Julius Lester tells the story of Emma -- a slave of Pierce Butler and caretaker of his two daughters -- and Pierce, a man with a moun… |
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The other side of free
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Krista Russell |
In 1739, having escaped from slavery under the British, thirteen-year-old Jem finds himself in the custody of sharp-tongued Phaedra at Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, but his efforts to break free of P… |
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Curses and smoke
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Vicky Alvear Shecter |
Tagus is a medical slave who wants 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 soo… |
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Exquisite captive
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Heather Demetrios |
"Nalia, a gorgeous, fierce eighteen-year-old jinni, is pitted against two magnetic adversaries, both of whom want her--and need her--to make a their wishes come true"-- |
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Go south to freedom
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Frye Gaillard |
As Gaillard's narrative makes clear, the Seminole Wars of the 1830s, in which Indians fought side by side with former slaves, represents the largest slave uprising in American history. Gaillard also … |
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White Stag
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Kara Barbieri |
The White Stag is an amazing book for teens, though be warned of struggles, hardships, Gore, and, most definitly **Rape**, so buckle up and enjoy the love. The trauma. The wonderful descriptions, and… |
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Chains
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. |
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Unlikely Friendship
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Ann Rinaldi |
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dr… |
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Curses and smoke
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Vicky Shecter |
"Two star-crossed lovers. One city on the brink of destruction. Tages is a medical slave, doomed to spend the rest of his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns … |
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