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10) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. When Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest...
Author
Series
I survived volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone--they're marching with the army. But then orders...
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