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Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. As time passes she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds...
2) Uprooted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The...
3) Amal unbound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
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Children's Recommended: 8th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Description
"Life is quiet and ordinary in Amal's Pakistani village, but she had no complaints, and besides, she's busy pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher one day. Her dreams are temporarily dashed when--as the eldest daughter--she must stay home from school to take care of her siblings. Amal is upset, but she doesn't lose hope and finds ways to continue learning. Then the unimaginable happens--after an accidental run-in with the son of her village's corrupt...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Follows the life of thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, from May 1774 to December 1775, as he serves his indentureship with a music teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, and witnesses the growing rift between patriots and loyalists, culminating in the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"1914, Fiji: 25-year-old police sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise. After a promising start to his career in his native India and in Hong Kong, he got sent to work in Fiji as punishment for a professional mistake he's too embarrassed to talk about. Lonely and humiliated, Akal longs for the day he can finally solve a big case and win the inspector-general's favor, thereby redeeming himself and being permitted to...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated account of the life of John Howland, the young servant who was indentured to Pilgrim John Carver, describes how he embarked on the Mayflower and survived a fall off the ship before helping his ill shipmates by scouting out a safe harbor.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family....
11) Copper sun
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Molly, a ten-year-old orphan, is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731, she is banished to America and serves as an indentured servant for a New York City family that expects her to follow their Jewish traditions.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Patron Recommendations: 6th Grade Books!
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Patron Recommendations: 6th Grade Books!
Description
Asia, Africa, Europe - Antonio's ancestors clashed and blended on the beautiful island of Cuba. Yet for most Cubans, life is anything but beautiful. The country is fighting for freedom from Spain. Enslaved Africans and near-enslaved Chinese indentured servants are forced to work long, backbreaking hours in the fields. So Antonio feels lucky to have found a good job as a messenger, where his richly blended cultural background is an asset. Through his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Examines the role of colonial women in the home, the workplace, and as slaves and servants, and discusses the part they played as activists and as leaders of the church and the community.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, un sello editorial de Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Description
Asia, África, Europa: los ancestros de Antonio chocaron y se mezclaron en la hermosa isla de Cuba. El país lucha por independizarse de España. Los esclavos africanos y los chinos bajo servidumbre por endeudamiento son forzados a trabajar largas horas, rompiéndose el lomo en los campos de cultivo. Por eso Antonio se siente afortunado de haber conseguido trabajo como mensajero, haciendo que su rica mezcla cultural sea una ventaja. A traves de su...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past toprevent an impending war in the Six Realms.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
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