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21) Freedom over me
Author
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--
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.
28) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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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.
30) 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.
31) Freewater
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2023 Black History Month
2023 Youth Media Awards
2024-2025 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
Newbery Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
2023 Youth Media Awards
2024-2025 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
Newbery Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
32) 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
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Anno: Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything...until the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces. She finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks? exile to return home, a plan that becomes increasingly fraught as her feelings for Khalaf evolve into an impossible love. Jinghua?s dicey prospects take a downward...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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 farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
37) Freedom for Addy
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
American Girl Addy fights for freedom during the Civil War in this all-new Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader that takes place in 1864--and includes an Addy poster! Addy Walker escapes a Southern plantation during the turbulent Civil War. Meet Addy as she and her mother make a daring journey from slavery to freedom in 1864. Addy's story is sure to engage young girls as they learn what it was like to be a girl during the Civil War in this Step...
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