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2013

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Praying for her own rags-to-riches story, impoverished sixteen-year-old Simi Fremont goes online to launch a modeling career but is soon caught in a d...

The ever-after Bird

—Rinaldi, Ann.

2007

Book

In 1851, thirteen-year-old Cecilia has her eyes opened to the horrors of slavery when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in sear...

The Pox party

—Anderson, M. T.

2006

Book

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is b...

The light across the river : a novel

—Reed, Stephanie.

2008

Book

In 1830s Ohio, Johnny Rankin's father and brother Lowry think he is too young and hotheaded to work on the Underground Railroad, but Johnny finds a wa...

The letter writer : a novel

—Rinaldi, Ann.

2008

Book

A young girl who serves as letter writer for her blind stepmother is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest sla...

The penalty

—Peet, Mal.

2007

Book

Paul Faustino, known as the best soccer journalist in the business, reluctantly investigates the disappearance of eighteen-year-old Ricardo, a soccer...

North by night : a story of the Underground Railroad

—Ayres, Katherine.

1998

Book

Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad....

Stealing freedom

—Carbone, Elisa.

1998

Book

A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separat...

Stealing South : a story of the Underground Railroad

—Ayres, Katherine.

2001

Book

Sixteen-year-old Will Spencer leaves home to become a peddler, but gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to go to Kentucky, steal two slaves,...

The mark of the Horse Lord

—Sutcliff, Rosemary.

2006

Book

Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the now blind displaced King of the Scots, former gladiator and slave Phaedrus impersonates the Horse Lord to regain...

A shade of vampire

—Forrest, Bella, author.

2015

Book

"On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake. A quiet evening walk along a bea...

Legacy of blood

—Ford, Michael, 1980-

2009

Book

When Lysander and his barracks are sent to Taras, Italy, to protect a vital trading post threatened by a local uprising, he spies a statue of a figure...

Letters from a slave boy : the story of Joseph Jacobs

—Lyons, Mary E.

2007

Book

A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil...

The end of the world and beyond : continues The unexpected life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts : being an absolutely accurate autobiographical account of my follies, fortune & fate written by himself

—Avi, 1937- author.

2019

Book

After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco far...

Willow

—Hegamin, Tonya.

2014

Book

In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born,...

Escape the mask

—Ward, David, 1967-

2009

Book

Six young friends, tortured by the Spears and forced to work as slaves in the harsh fields of Grassland, vow to escape to find the freedom that was st...

A nation apart

—Wall, Rebekah Dawn.

2010

Book

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Dragon and slave : the third dragonback adventure

—Zahn, Timothy.

2005

Book

Fourteen-year-old Jack and the dragon warrior Draycos face a diabolical and ruthless intergalactic slavemaster when Jack attempts to penetrate secret...

Trapped between the lash and the gun : a boy's journey

—Whitmore, Arvella.

1999

Book

Twelve-year-old Jordan is becoming dangerously involved with a street gang when he is suddenly transported through time to become a slave on the plant...

Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt

—Hopkinson, Deborah.

1993

Book

A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North....

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