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The Industry of Souls is the story of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen who was wrongfully arrested for espionage by the KGB in the 1950s and sentenced to twenty-five years of hard labor in the work camps of Siberia. Eventually freed in the 1970s, he decides not to return to the West--a world he barely remembers and to which he no longer belongs--and instead finds his way to a small Russian village where he becomes a much beloved schoolmaster.
Now,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Special 15th anniversary edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (198 pages)
Language
English
Description
Rebellion erupts on the "paradise" planet of Elysia, plunging the colony into chaos. In response, the all-powerful United Earth dispatches its elite corps of cyborg soldiers, led by Aaron "The Berber" Barber. For a hero celebrated galaxy-wide for his acts of bravery against alien hordes, a ragtag group of colonized miners with antiquated weapons should be no challenge. But Barber and his soldiers are unprepaed to meet the most dangerous enemy yet--humans...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
6) Crossroads
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Series
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English
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It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless-unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen...
Author
Series
Mirette books volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the Great Bellini teaches young Mirette to walk the high wire, she uses her talent to free him from prison, and both resolve to help others become free.
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Publisher
Handprint Books Inc
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Language
English
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While tied to a post, Superdog encounters a butterfly who shows off its freedom by flying upside down, but clever Superdog shows that he can see the world upside-down as well.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
137 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After eleven-year-old Carolina begins to make decisions for herself and no longer feels constrained by her mother, she is able to let her pet crow fly free.
10) Among the free
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
194 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.
11) Pinz?n
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Freedom is best, even with all its dangers." In this heart-pounding adventure, a young finch falls from his family's nest and into the life of a young boy and his father. The finch spends a harrowing night in a cage, barely escaping the clutches of a barn owl, and other threats. The next day, the boy offers the bird an unexpected chance at freedom. Will he take it?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Southeast Missouri State University Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
One hot night on the Rio Grande, a corrupt drug deal goes the wrong way. Police set themselves against soldiers, and soldiers die. Lieutenant Mario Oliveros should be among them, but he swims for his life to Langtry, Texas. Officially, he's a dead hero. Alive, in Mexico, he'd be dead soon enough. Through no fault of his own, he has become an illegal. Set in today's Mexico, Dallas, and the Texas Panhandle, The Illegal charts Mario's journey across...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Lexile measure
1060L
Physical Desc
561 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment.
Author
Series
Tuttle twins volume 1
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
55 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Children are often taught that government protects our life, liberty, and property, but could it be true that some laws actually allow people to hurt us and take our things? Join Ethan and Emily Tuttle as they learn about property, pirates, and plunder. With the help of their neighbor Fred, the twins will need to figure out what they can do to stop the bad guys in government!"--Page [4] of cover.
15) Flying the coop
Author
Series
Dreambird chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 478 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lucinda Roy continues the Dreambird Chronicles, her explosive first foray into speculative fiction, with Flying the Coop, the thought-provoking sequel to The Freedom Race. Dreams are promises your imagination makes to itself. In the disunited states, no person of color--especially not a girl whose body reimagines flight--is safe. A quest for Freedom has brought former Muleseed Jellybean "Ji-ji" Silapu to D.C., aka Dream City, the site of monuments...
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something— hope, reconciliation, freedom. In 'Cutting Horse,' the appearance of a horse in a man’s suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In 'Holler, Child,' a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows...
17) Yonder: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and eccentric captor, Cannonball Greene, they never know what...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
Hazel has just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable...
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