Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - 7+Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 7+Slave Girl from Jerusalem by Caroline Lawrence - 9+Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson - 11+Unheard Voices by Malorie Blackman - 11+Penalty by Mal Peet - 11+Spilled Water by Sally Grindley - 11+Sold by Patricia McCormick - 14+Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi - 14+. Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback Release Date: 02/06/2008. The first in the trilogy is Keeper and the final one is Exposure. Endorsed by Amnesty International UK this title was also a finalist for the US National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Format: Paperback Release Date: 06/10/2008. You can’t talk about race until you fully understand America’s past. A wonderfully atmospheric historical novel based on the story of the first African American female poet and a perfect introduction to the subject of slavery. Format: Paperback Release Date: 28/02/2008. Format: Paperback Release Date: 29/05/2008. Format: Paperback Release Date: 15/02/2007. With a rare and compelling voice, this haunting novel tells not only the story of a remarkable girl and her incredible strength, but also of a time and place in which slavery was the order of the day and lives were valued like weights of meat or bundles of vegetables. The Irish Slaves: Slavery, indenture and Contract labor Among Irish Immigrants, Always & Forever: A Saga of Slavery and Deliverance: Plantation Series, Book 1, The Inn At Seagrove (South Carolina Sunsets Book 4), A Slave of the Shadows (The Livingston Legacy Book 1), The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson: A Novel. In this terrific pocket size Puffin Classics edition there’s lots of additional material at the end of the book including an author profile, a guide to who’s who in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn plus many related activities to do beyond the book. They highlight a range of topics including gender, family, and resistance. This powerful and brilliantly evoked setting with believable characters is incredibly thought-provoking and paints a delicate, honest and finely realised portrait of one young girl's breavery. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully written and the author’s passion for football shines through in the writing. Check out the latest activities in our KidsZone. It's a heart-wrenching and mesmerising novel set in modern day China that reveals that even now slavery continues in parts of the world. Author: Patricia McCormick Their adventures together are masterfully imagined and brilliantly portrayed – you can’t fail as a reader to be transported into America’s deep south of the 19th century. If you’re football mad or want to be a journalist, don’t look further than this book for inspiration. 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Home » Browse » Sociology and Anthropology » Labor and Work » Slavery » Slavery. PLEASE BE AWARE THIS IS AN UNABRIDGED VERSION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY BUT GIVEN THERE ARE SOME RACIAL UNDERTONES IT MAY BE CONSIDERED UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN TO READ ALONE BUT INSTEAD BE OPEN TO DISCUSSION WITH AN ADULT. Format: Paperback Release Date: 06/06/2005. With a superb introduction by Richard Peck who tells us how he came to love this story and why it remains such a special adventure in his mind. This is a wonderful adventure of three boys from very different worlds. Now available in audio CD. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Lovereading comment: Are you a fan of Books about Slavery books? Just click here to view our selection. Discover librarian-selected research resources on Slavery from the Questia online library, including full-text online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. Books Advanced Search New Releases Best Sellers & More Children's Books Textbooks Textbook Rentals Best Books of the Month 1-16 of over 20,000 results for Books : "slavery … A powerful anthology of poetry and prose that allows the unheard voices of those subjected to slavery to reach out from the past to the present. Above all, it is a powerful novel as well as an incredible adventure about one girl's struggle for freedom in a society in which she is considered someone else's property. An 11 year old girl is sold into servitude by her mother and uncle and that day everything changed. Here at Lovereading4kids, we were so bowled over by this tremendous novel that we thought we would select a small number of titles that we feel will provide a terrific insight into a time and a place when slavery existed and in some places still does. As Darren Shan says in his Introduction, ‘It’s the trip of a lifetime. To coincide with the publication of Chains, an incredibly haunting novel set against the American struggle for independence and one girl's struggle for freedom, we've collated together, for children aged 7+, a range of titles that we feel will provide a terrific insight into a time and a place when slavery was the order of the day, whether it be in Roman times, more recently just 200 or so years ago or even contemporaneously through the writings of Mal Peet. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Children's Growing Up & Facts of Life Books, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, Representations of Slavery in Children’s Picture Books: Teaching and Learning about Slavery in K-12 Classrooms (Routledge Research in Education), BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Reading Rainbow Books), Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History: Society and Culture), The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom, HEBREW ISRAELITE SCRIPTURES: 400 Years of Slavery - SILVER EDITION, Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas English Dictionary (Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas 2e), Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving, To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes, Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom, Undeniable: Full Color Evidence of Black Israelites In The Bible. Lu Si-Yan is only 11 when her father dies but it is to be the beginning of the end of the life she knows. Author: Sally Grindley There's a problem loading this menu right now. The author reads from Another Twist in the Tale. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Refusing to be crushed, Lu Si-Yan is determined to get away and to return to her beloved mother and brother. Author: Mal Peet There's a problem loading this menu right now. A powerful novel written in vignettes about a Nepalese girl who risks everything for a chance to reclaim her life from the depths of childhood prostitution. Ten Books on Slavery You Need to Read. Author: Malorie Blackman Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. No catches, no fine print just unconditional book loving for your children with their favourites saved to their own digital bookshelf. Check out all of our Books about Slavery book selections, read reviews, download extracts and you can order the book too! Author: Mark Twain The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery—funded by a generous $2.5 million gift from Ruth and Sid Lapidus matched by The New York Public Library—is the only facility of its kind based in a public research library.. If you’re football mad or want to be a journalist, don’t look further than this book for inspiration. The first in the trilogy is Keeper and the final one is Exposure. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. No catches, no fine print just unconditional book loving for your children with their favourites saved to … This is the second novel from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino, South America’s top sports journalist. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This is the second novel from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. Here is a list of seven new notable books on slavery, which were published in the last six months or will soon be published. A classic story of being a boy and getting into scrapes. Benjamin Zephaniah, John Agard, James Berry, Catherine Johnson and Grace Nichols are among the contributors and there are also contemporary stories taken from the long and shocking history of slavery. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. In this terrific pocket size Puffin edition there’s lots of additional material at the end of the book including an author profile, a guide to who’s who plus many activities beyond the book.
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