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When you first walk into a room in a house, or into a stable, they have a way of telling you they know you’re there. It ain’t nothing particular noticeable, but the air inside of ‘em changes like it’s saying, “I’m watching you.” But I’d got into this stable so quiet and sneakish that nothing knowed I’d cracked open the door, held my breath, and took a step inside.
Then I heard a humming...
Then I heard a humming...
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Winner's trilogy volume 1
Description
In the tradition of Kristin Cashore and Cassandra Clare comes The Winner's Curse, a brilliant, unputdownable, star-crossed romance from New York Times bestselling author Marie Rutkoski.
Winning what you want may cost you everything you love
They were never meant to be together. As a general's daughter, seventeen-year-old Kestrel enjoys an extravagant and privileged life. Arin has nothing but the clothes
3) Nightjohn
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Pub. Date
1993
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92 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
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Dragonwatch volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
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Kendra and Seth seek help from the Giant Queen as the war against dragons moves into Titan Valley, a magical realm of towering giants and enslaved dragons.
5) Freewater
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Pub. Date
2022.
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viii, 403 pages ; 21 cm.
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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.
8) Show way
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The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
11) Freewater
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Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.
Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer...
Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer...
12) Freedom bird
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
14) Chains
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Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
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Pub. Date
c2007
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232 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1851, thirteen-year-old Cecilia has her eyes opened to the horrors of slavery when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in search of the rare "Scarlet Ibis," and watches as he shows slaves the way to the Underground Railroad.
20) Race for freedom
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Riverboat adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
c1996
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188 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
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In 1857, while helping to conceal a runaway slave on her father's Mississippi River steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby looks to God for support and hopes that her friend Caleb will let her join the Underground Railroad.
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