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Elisa Carbone

Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders--but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family around her. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her older sister, and her protective and loving parents are everything. And then one day, they are gone. Separated from her family by her master and shipped off as a housemaid, Ann learns something about independence and about love before the opportunity for escape arrives. A white man risks his life for Ann, cuts her hair short, dresses her like a boy, and launches her on her journey on the Underground Railroad to Canada, her family, and finally to freedom. Until she was a teenager, Ann Maria Weems lived in the mid-1800s near the author's home in Maryland. This fictionalized account of her extraordinary life is ideal for students, teachers, and parents hungry for interesting and informative reading in African-American history and the Underground Railroad.

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adapted by M. C. King

Miley’s rivals, Amber and Ashley, have perfected the art of mean. When their annual Cool List comes out, Miley and her best bud Lilly are dead last. Ultimate humiliation! Then Amber lands a spot on the TV show Singing with the Stars. The guest celebrity is none other than Hannah Montana, a.k.a. Miley Stewart. She sees a sweet opportunity to get back at Amber. But will Miley discover that fighting fire with fire could send her down in flames? Plus, when the new school bully won’t stop picking on Miley, Hannah Montana’s bodyguard goes undercover as a Seaview student!