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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume features the gorgeous original illustrations that Twain commissioned from Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a powerful and groundbreaking novel that played a pivotal role in shaping American history. Published in 1852, the book provides a stark depiction of the brutal realities of slavery in the United States. The story revolves around the life of Uncle Tom, an enduring and compassionate African American slave, and the various characters he encounters through his life of servitude. Stowe's narrative vividly...
Author
Series
Shenandoah sisters volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book 1 of SHENANDOAH SISTERS. Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families. When these tragic circumstances bring them together, they join forces to discover if they can make a life for themselves. As their preconceptions give way to experience, they gradually learn to value their contrasting and complementing strengths...
11) Steal away home
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
12) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-eighteen hundreds, while serving as cook's apprentice on his uncle's schooner with his pet monkey, Allie, twelve-year-old Ray discovers that they are transporting a fugitive slave to the free north.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
162 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Will, the son of a Williamsburg goaler, suspects that a captured runaway slave is planning to escape. Should he tell his father, despite his own sympathy to the slave?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher,...
19) Finn: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel inspired by Mark Twain's classic tales explores the mysterious life and strange death of Huckleberry Finn's infamous father, describing Finn's fearsome father, the Judge; his brother, the sickly, sycophantic Will; and young Huck.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.
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