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1) Freewater
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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.
Author
Series
Jewel Book 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015, 2014.
Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years for training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
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Series
Jewel Book 3
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Violet's sister Hazel has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake, and she must save both Hazel and the future of the Lone City.
Author
Series
Jewel Book 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death, so along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude"--
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Series
Horse diaries Book 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
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.
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Series
Seeds of America trilogy Book 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and while they do get special treatment - better work, better shoes, even violin lessons - they are still slaves, and are never to mention who their father is. The lighter-skinned children have been promised a chance to escape into white society, but what does this mean for the children who look more like their mother? As each child grows up,...
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and possibly dangerous: Primoria's lost chasm of magic. Theron sees this find as an opportunity -- with this much magic, the world can finally stand against threats like Angra. But Meira fears the danger the chasm poses -- the last time the world had access to so much magic, it spawned the Decay"--OCLC.
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy Book 1
Publisher
Antheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
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Description
The story of a 13-year-old African-American girl who is sold to a cruel, loyalist family living in New York City at the start of the Revolutionary War. Asked to spy on her owners for the Patriot cause, she is reluctant, until she realizes her loyalty lies with the side that can provide her with freedom.
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy Book 1
Publisher
Square Fish, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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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
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400 years ago, in 1619, their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders. But before that, they had a home, a land, a language. She learns how the people said to be born on the water survived"--
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Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
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Description
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
Author
Series
Mark of the thief Book 3
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
Nicolas Calva has Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and he has hidden the dangerous Jupiter Stone, but he still has to find a way to defeat The Mistress, a dragon who contains the soul of the vestalis Atroxia, and who hates Rome, and save his mother and friends, and maybe even the Empire itself--and he is troubled by his sneaking sympathy for Atroxia, who was unjustly condemned.
Author
Publisher
Lectorum Publications Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"A sus doce años, al pequeño Charlie parece habérsele acabado la suerte. Su padre, un aparcero, acaba de morir, y el capitán Buck --el hombre más temido de Mapache Triste, Carolina del Sur-- ha venido a cobrar una dueda. Charlie teme por su vida y decide llegar a un acuerdo con el capitán Buck: lo ayudará a rastrear a una banda acusada de robarle al capitán y a su jefe. No es un mal negocio para Charlie... hasta que se encuntra cara a cara...
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As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom. She becomes an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks' exile to return home. Her feelings evolve into a hopeless love, as Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great...
Author
Series
Mark of the thief Book 1
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Description
"When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome"--Jacket flap.
Author
Series
Queen's thief Book 5
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
Deep within the palace of the Mede emperor, in an alcove off the main room of his master's apartments, Kamet minds his master's business and his own. Carefully keeping the accounts, and his own counsel, Kamet has accumulated a few possessions, a little money stored in the household's cashbox, and a significant amount of personal power. As a slave, his fate is tied to his master's. If Nahuseresh's fortunes improve, so will Kamet's, and Nahuseresh has...
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