Julius Lester
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
2) John Henry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
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.
10) Othello: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A fictionalized account of the Biblical tale in which a Hebrew infant, rescued by the daughter of the Pharaoh, passes through a turbulent adolescence to eventually become a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.