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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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...
4) The land
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Publisher
Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacatio
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.
12) We are not free
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
13) Pink and Say
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
Life of faith Violet Travilla volume 1
Publisher
Mission City Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
Author
Publisher
Infinity Pub
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Daniel Lady Farm in Gettysburg was the northernmost Confederate hospital during the Civil War. It was the site where Confederate wounded from Culp's Hill (members of Major Gen. Edward Johnson's division of the Army of Northern Virginia) were brought for medical treatment. This story follows the Confederate army from northern Virginia to Gettysburg, chronicling events that took place over a time period of mid-June to July 4, 1863. And the book...
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While on a trip in 1956 to visit her grandmother in the South, six-year-old Sarah Marie experiences segregation for the first time, but discovers that things have changed by the time she returns the following year.
20) Ashes
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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"--
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