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I survived volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
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English
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"It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone--they're marching with the army. But then orders...
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Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet ending-his at a dueling ground on the shores of the Hudson River, hers more than half a century later after a brave, successful...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when an enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
610L
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English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, ten-year-old Eli and other newly freed slaves gather to honor the memory of fallen Union soldiers, an event considered to be one of the first celebrations of what was originally Decoration Day, now called Memorial Day.
7) Betty Zane
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1782 - the Ohio River settlements. The land along the Ohio River is newly settled. Indomitable men and women - Col. Zane and his family, the McCollochs, Wetzel, the "Death Wind" Indian killer, among them - have hewn a life out of the frontier wilderness, building homesteads and farms around the stockade and blockhouse of Fort Henry. All about them is the seemingly impenetrable forest, haunt of white renegades and hostile Indian tribes - the Wyandots,...
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Time twisters volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
520L
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English
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When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong accidentally time travels to 1869 Texas, cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the Moon, and step-siblings Abby and Doc must untwist history and get everyone back to their own time.
9) Pocahontas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
970L
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English
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Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia.
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"Set against the mountains and high plains of northeastern New Mexico during the decline of Spanish power in the New World, [this] is a story of loss and love regained, at a time when honor went hand in glove with bravery, and danger was never far away."--Cover, p. [4]
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2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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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.
13) Loyalty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
When his father is killed by rebel vigilantes, Noah flees with his family to Boston. Intent on avenging his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British and firsthand witness to the power of partisan rumor to distort facts, the hypocrisy of men who demand freedom while enslaving others, and the human connections that bind people together regardless of stated allegiances. Awash in contradictory information and participating in key events leading to the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
900L
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English
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First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before the twenty-one-year-old Stephan Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this pwerful psychological study of a young soilder's struggle with the horror's, both within and without, that war unleashes strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and it's masterful description of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by men under fire. Esteemed...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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He was known as Deathwind to the Ohio Valley Indians, and now Lewis Wetzel must single-handedly save Fort Henry. Armed only with his long rifle and knife, he heads out on a one-man rampage to stop the bloody border wars, to face down Chief Wingenund, and to avenge the brutal missionary massacre at Village of Peace.
17) The stolen train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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A fictionalized account of the Chattanooga Railroad Expedition in which fifteen-year-old Private Johnny Adams and the Andrews raiders try to immobilize the Confederate railroad system during the Civil War.
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"Ellie Morgan's life isn't going exactly as she planned. She finds herself divorced and working as a teacher in the Midwest when word arrives that a distant relative has died ... and left her everything. Ellie travels to Tennessee to attend to the estate, which includes a large plantation house that has been in the family since the early 1800s. Ellie feels drawn to the attic, where she finds a stack of letters hidden in a hatbox. The letters appear...
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The fact that the upstart colonists were able to prevails against the military might of Great Britain in the American war for independence is still a matter of wonderment. Under-funded, ill-equipped, inadequately trained, and hampered by loose enlistments, the Continental Army nevertheless prevailed. Their victory was made possible by the heroic efforts of the patriots, many of whom have been rightfully memorialized. But there were others, some whose...
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