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1. Freedom ship: the uncharted history of escaping slavery by sea

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Author:
Rediker, Marcus
Publisher:
Viking
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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East Hampton New Adult Nonfiction
973.7115 RED
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"As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America now known as the Underground Railroad. Yet imagery of fugitives ushered clandestinely from safe house to safe house fails to capture the full breadth of these harrowing journeys: many escapes took place not by land but by sea. Deeply researched and grippingly told, Freedom...

2. Freedom ship

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Author:
Rappaport, Doreen
Publisher:
Hyperion books for Children
Pub. Date:
2006
Lexile measure:
580L
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English
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Samuel and his father are slaves working on a Confederate steamship out of Charleston, South Carolina and they can see the Union ships in the distance where their freedom lies.

3. From slave ship to freedom road

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Author:
Lester, Julius, 1939-2018
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AD: Adult Directed 790L
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English
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East Hampton Juvenile Nonfiction
J 306.362 LES

4. The freedom ship of Robert Smalls

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Author:
Meriwether, Louise
Language:
English
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A brief biography of the slave who escaped to freedom with his family and other runaway slaves on a captured Confederate gunboat.

5. Jump ship to freedom

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Author:
Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-
Series:
Arabus Family Saga The
Lexile measure:
850L
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English
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In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.

6. New suns: original speculative fiction by people of color

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Publisher:
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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"'There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,' proclaimed Octavia E. Butler. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book's covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings. These are authors aware of our many possible...

7. The prophet

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Author:
Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931
Series:
Unabridged classics
Kahlil Gibran pocket library
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English
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5 stars
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Presents the Lebanese poet and philosopher's inspirational essays on love, marriage, work, joy, sorrow, freedom, pain, teaching, friendship and death.

8. Kidnapped

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Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Series:
Timeless Classics
Rainbow classics
David Balfour volume 1
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
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3 stars
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

9. The great alone

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 720L
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English
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, Alaska. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...

10. 20,000 leagues under the sea

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Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Series:
Treasury of illustrated classics
Timeless Classics
Books of wonder
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Lexile measure:
770L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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A deadly and huge sea monster is sinking ships. Three men--a French scientist, his trusty sidekick, and a Canadian harpoonist are thrown from the deck of their American warship. A door opens on the side of the monster, and they are taken inside the greatest submarine in the world, the top-secret Nautilus commanded by a madman who will take them 20,000 leagues into the depths.

11. Salt to the sea

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Author:
Sepetys, Ruta
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 560L
Language:
English
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"Winter 1945. Four refugees. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies, war. As thousands desperately flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. But not all promises can be kept." -- Page [4] cover.

12. The tempest

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Oxford world's classics
Plays
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Lexile measure:
1290L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

13. The exiles: a novel

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Author:
Kline, Christina Baker, 1964-
Language:
English
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Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...

14. The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Oxford world's classics
First Avenue Classics
Greenwich House classics library
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Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
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4.4 stars
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...

15. The Count of Monte Cristo

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
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Oxford world's classics
Enriched classics
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English
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3.3 stars
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Paris, 1844-45), by French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas, is one of the most popular novels ever written. This book presents a tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era. Edmond Dantes, a nineteen-year-old sailor from Marseilles, is soon to be captain of his own ship and to marry his beloved, the beautiful Mercedes. But spiteful enemies provoke his arrest on his wedding day, and he is condemned to...

16. Daughter of fortune: a novel

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Author:
Allende, Isabel
Lexile measure:
1250L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.

17. Henry's freedom box / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson

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Author:
Levine, Ellen
Publisher:
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date:
2007
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 490L
Language:
English
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A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

18. I survived the American Revolution, 1776

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Author:
Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 15
Lexile measure:
660L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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British soldiers were everywhere. There was no escape. Nathaniel Fox never imagined he'd find himself in the middle of a blood-soaked battlefield, fighting for his life. He was only eleven years old! He'd barely paid attention to the troubles between America and England. How could he, while being worked to the bone by his cruel uncle, Uriah Storch? But when his uncle's rage forces him to flee the only home he knows, Nate is suddenly propelled toward...

19. Twelve years a slave

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Author:
Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
Series:
B and N signature editions
Library of Southern civilization
African American
American Classics Children's Collection
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 790L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. Born a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...

20. Roots

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Author:
Haley, Alex
Lexile measure:
1330L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative...
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