Great episodes
Author
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Description
Orphaned by an Indian raid while traveling West with a wagon train, fifteen-year-old Carrie Hill is befriended by the English trapper Beaver Dick and taken to live with his Indian wife Jenny and their six children.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it.
4)
Earthquake at dawn
Author
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A recent arrival to the New World in 1633, sixteen-year-old Rebekah, a missionary's daughter, befriends a Native American woman and begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her American father.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
A fictional retelling of the abduction of Cynthia Parker, who was stolen by Comanches as a child & lived with them for 24 years, first as a slave, then as a chief's wife. Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1778 fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as personal maid to Peggy Shippen, the daughter of wealthy Philadelphia Quakers, and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the revolutionary American forces.
10) Indio
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and, along with a startling revelation about her own background, comes to understand the true nature of war.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
16)
In the shadow of the Alamo
Author
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.