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Series
Rush Revere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
5) Luna
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 12
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In the Netherlands in 1855, May, a young member of a circus family who is not permitted to perform because of a twisted foot, bonds with a local Friesian farm horse that she names Luna, and together the two perform a heroic act that changes their futures for the better. Includes facts about Friesian horses.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama gives her a terrible order: burn the shipyard to the ground....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--
11) Vengeance road
Author
Series
Vengeance road volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--
12) Lucy
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When seventeen-year-old Lucy's father, a minister, gets a prestigious summer position in Bar Harbor, Maine, her mother determines to find a rich husband for her daughter but Lucy is fascinated by the sea and a handsome ship-builder.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's 1943, and the White House is busy with the war effort. Diana Hopkins only wants to help, but doesn't know what a ten-year-old can do - until the Roosevelts come up with the idea of Victory Gardens, and Diana suddenly has the important job of Victory Gardener for the White House"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Caroline knows that in order to fight the British, her village desperately needs its shipyards and supply boats and she will do whatever it takes to keep them out of enemy hands, then later, while helping on her uncle's farm, Caroline discovers that the war brings dangers there, too.
16) Breaker boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1911 Pennsylvania, Corey, eleven, works in coal mines to help support his family, but when an accident triggers a phobia, he must turn to a strange recluse for help.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
With World War II looming and the lingering economic depression straining her family's finances, twelve-year-old Millie struggles to look for happiness in 1941 California. Determined to find peace along the beach, Millie discovers a new friend, even as she must contend with demands from her younger siblings, an annoying older relative who moves in with them, and the death of her beloved grandmother. Then the Pearl Harbor attack changes everything,...
18) The staircase
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Formats
Description
"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
20) Free-fire zone
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
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