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Author
Series
Ballantyne novels volume prequel
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A prequel to A Falcon Flies traces the story of Augustus Mungo St John, who upon returning from university discovers his inheritance and childhood sweetheart under the control of scheming enemy, Chester Marion.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. This deeply moving tale of unlikely love traces the journey of these very different women as each searches for freedom and dignity.
3) Lincoln
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Follows Abraham Lincoln during the last months of the American Civil War and his fight to pass the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery.
Author
Series
Mark of the thief trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nicolas Calva has Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and he has hidden the dangerous Jupiter Stone, but he still has to find a way to defeat The Mistress, a dragon who hates Rome, and save his mother and friends, and maybe even the Empire itself.
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Although raised on a Southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War.
6) Chains
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When their owner dies at the start of the Revolution, Isabel and her younger sister are sold to Loyalists in New York, where Isabel is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Emancipation Proclamation can be confusing to struggling readers, but this volume gives readers needed context to understand this document. With clear language historical context, young readers will deepen their understanding of this key historical document.
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