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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Clara tries to help her mother raise enough money in 1896 to save their home from foreclosure and announce their plans to walk over four thousand miles from their hometown in Washington to New York City within seven months for a reward of ten thousand dollars.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
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