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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of how Margaret spent her early years observing the natural world before mastering the art of photography and became the first female war photojournalist in World War II.
Growing up, Peggy White intended to become a herpetologist, but while she was still in college her interest she became fascinated with photography. Her focus widened from landscape architecture to shots of factories, trains, and bridges. Her artist's eye sharpened...
Author
Series
Young royals volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living an isolated life in their strict father's parsonage out on the English moors, the Bronte siblings have always been inseparable, their vivid imaginations actually transporting them into their created worlds: the glittering Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy Gonday, but when Branwell begins to slip into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as their characters--the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
GN 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee-comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes-shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he has been the leading creative force behind Marvel Comics, and has brought...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970"--
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"I am not a criminal, because I destroyed that which was evil. I think that I'm good."—Gavrilo Princip, October 23, 1914. This much we know: On June 28, 1914, a young man stood on a street corner in Sarajevo, aimed a pistol into a stalled car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and pulled the trigger. Within a few minutes, the archduke was dead, and Europe would not know peace again for five years. More than 16 million people would die...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pampered child used to having her own way, Anneke Van Raalte lives outside Amsterdam, where her father is a cartoonist for an Amsterdam newspaper. Though Anneke's family is Jewish, her religion means little to her. Anneke's life changes in 1942 when the Nazis invade Holland and she and her family are deported to Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Not only are conditions in the camp appalling, but the camp is the site of an elaborate...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bahrain, 1970. After a summer spent with her family, fifteen-year-old Anna is flying back to boarding school in England when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and taken to the Jordanian desert. Demands are issued. If they are not met, the terrorists will blow up the plane, killing all hostages. The heat becomes unbearable; food and water supplies dwindle. All alone, Anna begins to face the possibility that she may never see her family...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg Pickel's older brother, Orion, has disappeared. One night, she steals out to look for him, and makes two surprising discoveries: She stumbles upon a séance that she suspects involves Orion, and she meets the author Charles Dickens, also unable to sleep, and roaming the London streets. He is a customer of Meg's father, who owns a print shop, and a family friend. Mr. Dickens fears that the children of London aren't safe, and is trying to solve...
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children and young people who survived the Holocaust. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors courage. These...
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