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1) Freewater
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
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2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
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Description
Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail....
Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Fantasy [Middle School Readers]
Black Lives Matter: Elementary Stories
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Description
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...
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