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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury--bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood--is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1352 England, seventeen-year-old Annabel, granddaughter of a knight and a would-be nun, eludes a lecherous bailiff but falls in love with Lord Le Wyse, the ferocious and disfigured man to whom her family owes three years of indentured servitude, in this tale loosely based on Beauty and the Beast.
7) Copper sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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This book tells how Denver Moore, an African American, was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before Deborah Hall, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an apprenticeship at one of the most esteemed entertainment houses in the kingdom. She doesn’t remember much from before entering the House of Flowing Water, and when her uncle is suddenly killed in a bandit attack, she is devastated to lose her last connection to a life outside of her indenture contract....