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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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"Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets' Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American nation. Few slave traders were more successful than Isaac Franklin,...
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Blood bond volume 9
Pub. Date
2006
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"Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers years ago in Wyoming Territory. So close that they can almost read each other's mind. So when Matt Bodine, making time with Wyatt Earp's woman in Tombstone, feels an inexplicable chill in his bones, he knows his brother is calling out to him. A hundred miles away, Sam is in more than trouble, he's in chains at the hands of a murderous human slaver. Suddenly, Sam's life is hanging by a thread, along...
8) Nophek gloss
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The Graven novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a crew of misfit aliens and a mysterious ship that seems to have a soul and a universe of its own. Together they will show him that the universe is much bigger, much more advanced, and much more mysterious than Caiden had ever imagined. But the universe hides dangers as well, and soon Caiden has his own plans. He vows to do anything it takes to get revenge on the slavers...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad. When the old woman refuses to flee before the authorities arrive, the farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before...
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Chewbacca relates a story from his youth when he and some of his friends, eager to prove themselves ready for the rites of adulthood on their native Kashyyyk, wandered into the perilous Shadowlands in search of adventure. They got more adventure than expected when they encountered a gang of slavers who were preparing to raid the Wookie village.
13) Shipwrecked: a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
14) Elephant white
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A mercenary in Thailand meets a 14-year-old girl who changes his life forever.
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[2008]
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In 1788, a slave ship sailed from the Gambia River with hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them made an astonishing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom larger and more developed than the newly formed United States. The true story of an African prince who endured the humiliation of slavery without losing his dignity or hope of freedom.
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Determined to prove themselves eligible for the rites of adulthood, Chewie and his young friends venture into the perilous Shadowlands in search of adventure. But they find far more than they bargained for when they stumble upon slavers plotting a raid on the Wookiee village.
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Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padawan Ahsoka Tano, and their Republic troops arrive on the peaceful world of Kiros to free it from an occupying Separatist droid army. After winning control of the eerily vacant capital, the Jedi learn that the city has been mined with bombs. While Obi-Wan taunts the warlord Xerius Ugg into a duel, Anakin and Ahsoka search the city and attempt to disarm the bombs before they go off.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States. Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after...
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