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1) The Big Burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1906, fiesty eleven-year-old Elizabeth "Littlebeth" Morgan is shipped off to live with her Aunt Sally in San Francisco with the hopes that she will be tamed, but shortly after arriving the city is hit by a catastrophic earthquake, forcing Littlebeth to fight for her survival.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
Author
Series
Story collector volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of eleven-year-old Viviani Joffre Fedeler, who was born and raised in the New York Public Library, and her older brothers and best friend Eva, who all try and find out if the library is haunted.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Li, her mother, and her brother journey from China to America to join their father in San Francisco. But they are detained at the Angel Island immigration center, where Chinese Americans are subject to harsh treatment and questioning. Will Li be able to answer the detailed questions about her former home, and why she wants to come to America? Or will she fail the tests and be deported?"--Title verso page.
12) Lucky strikes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Walter plans to spend the summer of 1927 watching his beloved Chicago Cubs play baseball. Instead, his life is upended when his mother is diagnosed with tuberculosis. Walter leaves his father and his friends to accompany his mother by train to Albuquerque, New Mexico--a place he has never been to live with relatives he has never met. To help with expenses, Walter gets a paper route. But the situation gets worse when his mother is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In autumn 1932 Tommy McKnight, a twelve-year-old boy disabled by polio, and bullied at school for his disability--but inspired by Franklin Roosevelt's story and his campaign for the presidency, decides to run for the seventh grade class presidency at his Brooklyn school.
Author
Series
Time twisters volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Amelia Earhart accidentally time travels back to ancient Greece, Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade her to return to her own time and finish her solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
16) Rachel's hope
Author
Series
Rachel trilogy (Shelly Sanders) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel was forced to leave her home in Russia because of the anti-Semitic violence that killed her father. She made her way to Shanghai, China where she managed to establish herself as a newspaper write, no easy task for a woman at the turn of the 20th century. Now eighteen, Rachel remains separated from her sweetheart, Sergei, but she has finally realized her dream of coming to America. Arriving in California, she is inspired by the women's labor...
17) Nothing but sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo"--
1922. Wing walker Grace Lafferty is determined to get to the World Aviation Expo, proving her team's worth against flashier competitors-- and earning a coveted Hollywood contract. Henry Patton, a mechanic with plenty of scars from the battlefield, joins her barnstorming team....
18) Root magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven--and their uncle, Doc, tells them he's going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always...
19) Button down
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tugs Button's cousin Ned wants to be a football player, and although his size and a bully who keeps him and his friends out of their games stand in the way, Ned's eccentric Grandpa Ike and his own ability may give him his chance.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
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