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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
5) Texas woman
Author
Series
Sisters of the Lone Star volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Author
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...
Author
Series
American girls collection volume 5
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
10) Where shadows go
Author
Series
Georgia trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
John Fraser agrees to his wife Anne's fondest wish and gives up his career as a British Royal Marine and returns to her family's plantation on St. Simons Island, where they begin to raise a family and come to realize the immorality of slavery.
America's first lady of storytelling takes up where her best-selling Bright Captivity left off, recreating life on a nineteenth-century plantation in the vivid, dramatic second volume of The Georgia Trilogy....
11) Yesterday
Author
Language
English
Description
A sultry South Carolina landscape is the backdrop for a story of four childhood friends who must relinquish cherished memories of the past to embrace the painful truth that will change their lives forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad ... This ... stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only...
Author
Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 271
Lexile measure
1570L
Language
English
Description
The story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness.
Author
Series
Lights of Lowell volume 3
Publisher
BethanyHouse Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation. Tensions are high, and the lives of the slaves they've promised to protect hang in the balance"--Provided by publisher.
17) Honey Bea
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
On a Louisiana sugar plantation, a young slave girl struggles with the magical powers that have been passed down from her grandmother and mother to her, unsure of the responsibilities and consequences that accompany this power.
Author
Series
Carolina cousins volume no. 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"The tragic romance of Emma and a wounded 'buffalo soldier.' When the two fall in love, it poses problems for William McSimmons' political career. Can their love keep them together?"--Provided by publisher.
20) Bloodroot
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Herbalist China Bayles returns to her family's Mississippi plantation, where she comes face to face with dangerous family secrets as she discovers that an ancient property deed has suddenly resurfaced, and the man who found it has vanished.