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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Blood bond volume 9
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"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...
5) Nophek gloss
Author
Series
The Graven novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"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.
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
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.
9) Shipwrecked: a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"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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Series
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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