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1) The jewel
Author
Series
Lone city trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Queen's thief volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--
Author
Series
Bound by blood and sand volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A slave living in a dying desert world must decide if she wants to help the kingdom's prince save their world"--
5) Ashes
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
6) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
8) Freedom bird
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Series
Bound by blood and sand volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Jae, a sixteen-year-old former slave girl has found magic and broken out of the curse imposed by the ruling class. To free the rest of her people, she may have to lead a violent revolution"--
10) Calico Girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day. Includes historical notes.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
15) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2020 Youth Media Awards: Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz!
Juneteenth Reads for Children
Juneteenth Reads for Children
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
16) The Pox party
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
17) Dream country
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
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.
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