Marty Rhodes Figley
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English
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Fifteen-year-old James Forten is a free African American during the American Revolution. He joins the crew of the Royal Louis as a powder boy and is captured in a battle with a British ship. He knows that many African American prisoners were sold into slavery. Will James ever see his family again?
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English
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On January 12, 1888, when a blizzard blows off the roof of their schoolhouse on what had been an unseasonably warm day in Nebraska, Sarah and Annie are roped together with the other children and led by their teacher out into the storm and, hopefully, to the safety of her house.
13) Mary and Martha
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English
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A retelling of the story of two very different sisters and what they learned when Jesus visited their house.