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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. --
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A harrowing and redemptive immigrant story for readers of Pachinko. A Chinese railroad worker and his young daughter--sold into servitude--in 19th century California search for family, fulfillment, and belonging in a violent new land. "Heaven and earth do not pick and choose. They see everything as straw dogs." A sweeping historical novel of the American West from the little-seen perspective of those who helped to build it, Straw Dogs of the Universe...
Author
Series
American diaries volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While working as an indentured servant on a plantation in Virginia in 1749, thirteen-year-old Summer must prove her innocence when her master's daughter accuses her of stealing.
44) Frontier bride
Author
Series
Harlequin historicals volume 318
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
45) Seeking Sophie
Author
Publisher
CrossRiver
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In 1858 New England, orphaned, indentured servant Sophie Stalz stabs her master to protect herself from rape. Now she must rely on her brother and his friends to protect her. Escaping through the Underground Railroad, Sophie finds herself stranded on an island in the hands of a stranger. Surrounded by the sea and occupied with the duties of a lighthouse keeper, Jackson Scott just wants to be left alone with his memories. His fortress is about to...
Author
Series
Empire State historical publications volume 38
Publisher
I. J. Friedman
Pub. Date
[1965, c1935]
Language
English
47) Edenland
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Born a slave, Bledsoe had never left Our Joy plantation, and a daring escape offers his only chance for liberty. On the run he encounters Alice, an Irish indentured servant committing what appears to be an act of murder as she burns down a shack in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina. Faced with the threat of capture, Bledsoe and Alice become reluctant allies. An epic tale unfolds as their quest for freedom pulls them from swamp to city, from...
49) Give me liberty
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
50) A stolen life
Author
Publisher
McElderry Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by "spiriters" and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter.
54) Unconquered
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Peace-loving Chris Holden is a militiaman who buys and then frees beautiful indentured servant Abby Hale. When a supplier of illegal firearms covets Abby for himself, he sparks a vicious battle between an Indian tribe and a few brave colonists.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman who is a bard-and a warrior-seeks to repay her debts and settle scores in this thrilling historical fantasy series. The young warrior and bard Liobhan has lost her brother to the Otherworld. Even more determined to gain a place as an elite fighter, she returns to Swan Island to continue her training. But Liobhan is devastated when her comrade Dau is injured and loses his sight in their final display bout. Blamed by Dau's family for...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
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.
60) Runaways of colonial New Jersey: indentured servants, slaves, deserters, and prisoners, 1720-1781
Author
Publisher
Heritage Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English