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Land of the free

the kids' book of freedom
Explains what freedom means and specifies some of the protected freedoms in the Bill of Rights and the United Nations' Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

Beast & crown

"Boot boy Ji is tired of scrubbing soles and untangling shoelaces. He doesn't want to bow and scrape. All he wants is freedom--for himself and his friends. He decides to risk everything for a chance to accompany a young nobleman to the Diadem Rite, a magical ritual that chooses the heir to the Summer Crown. Ji doesn't care about crowns or ceremonies, but he vows that this trip will grant him and his friends new lives, far away from boots and bowing. What Ji doesn't know is that he and his friends have a dangerous part to play in the Diadem Rite. One that will change them forever"--Amazon.

Human rights & liberty

2017
"This book explains that no matter where we live in the world or under what government, our human rights protect our claim to live with freedom, equality, justice, and peace."--Amazon.

If you can keep it

the forgotten promise of American liberty
If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness?including our role as a "nation of nations"?and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place.

Liberty defined

50 essential issues that affect our freedom
2012
Physician and congressman Dr. Ron Paul offers his perspective on fifty issues of freedom in the United States, including abortion, immigration, medical care, and others.

The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing

2006
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

Polaris

2015
"Jeth Seagrave and his crew of mercenaries are pulled into one last high-stakes mission"--Provided by publisher.

Avalon

2014
"Seventeen-year-old Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon."--Provided by publisher.

The clone codes

Clone Code, Book 1
2010
On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.

Among the free

Shadow Children, Book 7
2006
When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.

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