Christina Moore
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Deeply unhappy about the separation of her family because of poverty, twelve-year-old Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas.
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.