Matt Phelan
1) Snow White
Author
Lexile measure
220L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins,...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 560L
Language
English
Description
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness. Certainly a case of "dust dementia" would explain who (or what) Jack has glimpsed in the Talbot's abandoned barn - a sinister...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 710L
Language
English
Description
Fictionalized accounts of the true stories of three people who made separate attempts to travel around the world in the late nineteenth century, including Thomas Stevens, who made the journey on a bicycle, reporter Nellie Bly, who used conventional methods of travel, and sea captain Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail around the world alone.