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Series
Stormlight archive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
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Description
A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
2) Homegoing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Read-Alikes for The Vanishing Half
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
3) Kindred
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"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 across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
Henry Townsend, a former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor--William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as his own slaves. Henry tragically fails to understand the fundamental flaws in his thinking that he can be a better slave master than a white man.
5) Alta
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
The dragonrider Vetch escapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth. There, he hopes to teach his people to raise and train dragons-and build an army that will liberate his homeland.
Author
Series
Lone city trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death, so along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude"--
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner. The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen. Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom . . . until the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces and she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf...
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
11) Trafficked
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.
12) The jewel
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
14) Promises to keep
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Jay Marinitch, a young vampire hunter, may be Earth's best hope for thwarting the rise of a vampire-controlled slave empire called Midnight, despite his fear that those who question his worth may be right.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Instead of spending her teen years at parties and balls, Annie, an idealistic, poetry-loving patriot, finds herself nursing soldiers, hiding valuables, and running the household as the Civil War rages around her family's Virginia home. The civil war has broken out, and Annie Sinclair's Virginia home, Hickory Heights, is right in the line of battle. Caught up in the rising conflict, Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers while Annie's older...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum/Atheneum Books for young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The lives of four characters, including cemetery thief Cade Curtis, a runaway slave, and an illegally captured ocelot, flow together across time through their connections to the Houston bayou and an angel carved from Georgia marble.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. The 1853 edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- known as the "Splendid Edition" -- includes 117 detailed, evocative illustrations by Hammatt Billings. An introduction by Bancroft-winning historian David S. Reynolds provides a general introduction discussing the history of the Splendid Edition and the role Stowe's novel played in fomenting the Civil War, a role reinforced by the story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of...
19) The pox party
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Octavian Nothing is raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. He and his mother are the only people in their household assigned names. Young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies, only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments.
20) Pirates!: the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
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