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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
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
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
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
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.
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.
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.
11) My Vicksburg
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Susanna English desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage, but she doesn't realize the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations that will lead to the imprisonment and execution of countless innocent people-victims of a witch-hunt panic.
"The author's skillful manipulation of the conventions of the young-adult novel-particularly the rich exploration...
14) Brooklyn Rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, fifteen year-old Rose meets and marries Rene, a Yankee from Brooklyn, New York, who takes her north to his home where she encounters many differences in attitudes and lifestyles.
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl who serves as letter writer for her blind stepmother is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest slave uprisings in the history of America.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows Caty and her daughter Cornelia through the latter half of the eighteenth century as they mingle with the heroes of the Revolutionary War, discovering that a woman's only means of power, flirting, can cause trouble and confusion.
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.
20) Juliet's moon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Missouri in 1863, twelve-year-old Juliet Bradshaw learns to rely on herself and her brother, a captain with Quantrill's Raiders, as she sees her family home burned, is imprisoned by Yankees, and then kidnapped by a blood-crazed Confederate soldier.
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