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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction North Carolina Fiction Slavery Slavery Fiction Slavery Juvenile fiction United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile fiction Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 FictionLeslie, Tonya
Summary: "Addy Walker escapes a Southern plantation during the turbulent Civil War. Meet Addy as she and her mother make a daring journey from slavery to freedom in 1864. Addy's story is sure to engage young girls as they learn what it was like to be a girl during the Civil War in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LESSmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIWalker, Margaret
Summary: The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1966
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalter, Jon
Summary: Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALMack, Stanley.
Summary: In 1861, a young slave named Sam escapes to search for his father, who has been conscripted into the Confederate army, and makes his way to a northern city, while back at the Virginia plantation where Sam was raised Annabelle, the owner's daughter, struggles to run things after her father's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Childrens Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Graphic MACKendall, Jane F.
Summary: Although raised on a Southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Kendall 2012Parry, Owen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARGrahame-Smith, Seth.
Summary: Reveals the hidden life of the 16th U.S. president, who was actually a vampire hunter, obsessed with the complete elimination of the undead, and uncovers the role vampires played in the birth, growth and near-death of the nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAHesse, Karen.
Summary: In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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Summary: A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC POWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWPatrick, Denise Lewis.
Summary: "What if you suddenly found yourself in Addy Walker's world in the middle of the Civil War? Join Addy on adventures as you outrun a slave catcher, raise money for soldiers, and search for Addy's family. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options in this multiple-ending story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMEGibbons, Kaye
Summary: A Southern woman describes her life--from childhood on a plantation with a tyrannical father, to Civil War nurse in a military hospital with her surgeon husband, to pro-abolitionist in old age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1998