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21) Lyddie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
22) The slave dancer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
24) Molly marches on
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
Molly is sure that she will find the surprise at the end of the overnight nature hike at Camp Gowonagin, but then she finds her own secret surprise.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Estrild is not like the other girls in her village; she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps train her in spite of his twisted back, also stands apart. In a world where differences are poorly tolerated, just how much danger are they in? Inspired by the true discovery of the two-thousand-year-old Windeby bog body in Northern Germany, master storyteller Lois Lowry breathes life back into the Windeby Child, left in the bog to drown...
Author
Series
I survived volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
27) Bell's star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
During the Depression, a rural African-American family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham -- He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. When the trains come to empty the Jews...
30) A sailor returns
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Evan, an eleven-year-old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is delighted when his long-lost grandfather returns, relates his many sea adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot.
Author
Series
Boston Jane adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
Author
Series
American girls collection
American girl.Kirsten volume 06
American girls 1854 volume Kirsten 6
American girl 1854 volume 06
American girl.Kirsten volume 06
American girls 1854 volume Kirsten 6
American girl 1854 volume 06
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
34) Calico captive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based on an actual narrative. In 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian war, young Miriam Willard and her older sister's family are captured in an Indian raid on Charleston, N.H., where they are held for ransom.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 1
American girl.Kit volume 01
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 1
American girl 1934 volume 01
American girl.Kit volume 01
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 1
American girl 1934 volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Kit Kittredge responds with resourcefulness when her father's business closes because of the Great Depression and she is forced to make changes in her life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War. A young boy's experiences during the Civil War in the backwoods of southern Illinois. One brother joins the Union forces, the other the Confederacy, and the family is divided. Annotation. The unforgettable story of young Jethro Creighton who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War....
37) Wolf brother
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Six thousand years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
Author
Series
I survived volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his cousins live. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle that couldn't be more different from the one he is used to. Josh and his cousin bond over tacos and reptiles and jokes, but on a trip into the nearby forest, they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, Fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over teaching the classroom at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies".
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1838, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms.
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