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Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy."--P....
Author
Series
Sources in American history volume 5
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[c1965]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A multicultural history of the United States, from 1850 to 1880, focussing on the events before, during, and after the Civil War and discussing the experiences of various ethnic groups, notably blacks, Native Americans, and Chinese immigrants, during this period.
10) The Lawless
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This seventh volume of The Kent Family Chronicles follows the lives of family members during the last half of the nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Working on the Underground Railroad throughout the Civil War, Morgan Kinneson is shaken by the murder of a slave and the disappearance of his brother from the Union army, triggering his life-threatening search through war-stricken landscapes.
12) Maps of fate
Author
Series
Publisher
Rockin' SR Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1855, Book Two continues the tale of four generations of men and women shaping the West as the West shapes them. Adventure, danger, love, armed conflicts, slavery, gold, and Indians play into their worlds and the ways of the American West.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
On the way to California with their kind new master, thirteen-year-old Jacob, his mother, and other slaves are caught up in adventures that include trying to stop a plot to help the South secede from the Union.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised alongside her white half sister--until her father suddenly dies. His vindictive wife refuses twelve-year-old Jeannette her inheritance and sells her into slavery. Now on her own, Jeannette must fight the injustices she faces because of her mixed race. She escapes enslavement and travels from Mississippi to Philadelphia to New York to Ohio, all while...
Author
Publisher
Aberdeen Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In this volume, Jeff Broome has done a marvelous job of mining documents filed under the Indian depredation claims system a federal Indian policy intending to preserve peace on the frontiers by allowing white settlers and Indians, alike, to file claims for the wrongs done by each other. The policy, the federal government hoped, would prevent frontier retaliations and violence. It failed miserably, but the resulting claims reveal nearly a century's...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
c2021.
Language
English
Description
In Moon and the Mars, set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of Theo from childhood to adolescence, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents. Throughout her formative years, Theo witnesses everything from the creation of tap dance to P.T. Barnum's sensationalist museum to the draft riots that tear NYC asunder, amidst the daily...
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