<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">FIC Anderson</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Laurie Halse Anderson.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img src="https://alexhost4.goalexandria.com/images/blank.gif" width="40" height="1" alt="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Chains / Laurie Halse Anderson. -- N.Y. : Atheneum, 2010.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Grades 6-10. If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><hr width="100%" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;fon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atures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">FIC Anderson</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Laurie Halse Anderson.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img src="https://alexhost4.goalexandria.com/images/blank.gif" width="40" height="1" alt="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Ashes / Laurie Halse Anderson. -- New York : : Atheneum Books for Young Readers,, [2016].</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon have narrowly escaped Valley Forge—but their relief is short-lived. Before long they are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel’s little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state—where bounty hunters are thick as flies.</span><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">FIC Bryan</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Ashley Bryan.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img src="https://alexhost4.goalexandria.com/images/blank.gif" width="40" height="1" alt="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Freedom over me / Ashley Bryan. -- New York : : Atheneum Books for Young Readers,, [2016].</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"-- In his gentle yet deeply powerful way, Ashley Bryan goes to the heart of how a slave is given a monetary value by the slave owner, tempering this with the one thing that CAN’T be bought or sold—dreams. Inspired by the actual will of a plantation owner that lists the worth of each and every one of his “workers”, Bryan has created collages around that document, and others like it. Through fierce paintings and expansive poetry he imagines and interprets each person’s life on the plantation, as well as the life their owner knew nothing about—their dreams and pride in knowing that they were worth far more than an Overseer or Madam ever would guess. Visually epic, and never before done, this stunning picture book is unlike anything you’ve seen.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><hr width="100%" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">FIC Burg</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Ann E Burg.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img src="https://alexhost4.goalexandria.com/images/blank.gif" width="40" height="1" alt="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Unbound / Ann E Burg. -- New York : : Scholastic Press,, 2016..</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep her eyes down. Uncle Jim warns her to keep her thoughts tucked private in her mind or they could bring a whole lot of trouble and pain. But the more Grace sees of the heartless Master and hateful Missus, the more a rightiness voice clamors in her head-asking how come white folks can own other people, sell them on the auction block, and separate families forever. When that voice escapes without warning, it sets off a terrible chain of events that prove Uncle Jim's words true. Suddenly, Grace and her family must flee deep into the woods, where they brave deadly animals, slave patrollers, and the uncertainty of ever finding freedom.</span><br></span></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">We are looking to add to our seventh grade social studies classes a fiction book that features either women or Native Americans or African Americans.  Our textbook gives the standard view of that time period, so we would like to diversify through fiction.</div><div><div class="m_4130923099979162585gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="'arial black', sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000">Kathy Wickline</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000">Unity Junior High Librarian</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000">Tolono, IL</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000"><a href="mailto:wicklinek@unity.k12.il.us" target="_blank">wicklinek@unity.k12.il.us</a></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#660000">Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @ujhslibrary</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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