The Freedom Merchants by Sherryl Jordan
Set in Ireland in the 1600s, this book is about the white slave trade that went on on the Barbary Coast (which was the Northern Coast of Africa), at the same time as the slave trade of Negros to America. Over 1 million white Christians were captured by corsair pirates, and sold in slavery to Muslim masters in the Mediterranean. The pirates captured slaves from as far north as fishing villages in England and Ireland, and even from Iceland. This story is about 13-year-old Liam, whose life is changed because of these pirate raids
On the cusp of maturity, young Margaret Simon moves with her family from New York City to Farbrook, New Jersey. There she falls in with a clique of friends, Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie, who form a secret club to talk about boys and puberty. However, Margaret's newfound friends cannot understand why she doesn't go to church or join the Y. But what they don't know is that Margaret has her own very special relationship with God.
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns. Fahrenheit 451 is a novel set in the (perhaps near) future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by a totalitarian "brave new world" regime. The hero, according to Mr. Bradbury, is "a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch." Today, when libraries and schools in this country and all over the world are still "burning" certain books, Fahrenheit 451 remains a brilliantly readable and suspenseful work of even greater impact and timeliness.
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