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1) Sold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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.
3) 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.
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.
5) 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.
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
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.
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
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.
10) Willow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
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
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
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
After escaping from a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, on hearing of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces, Octavian and his friends find themselves on board a British ship raiding the shores of Virginia as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
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
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...
16) Jip: his story
Author
Publisher
Lodestar Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
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