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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Coretta Scott King illustrator award book : 2000.
Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.
5) Native son
Author
Language
English
Description
Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young black man finds release only in acts of violence.
6) The cay
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1969]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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