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Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
For young Cora Moffat March 18, 1925 has been a bad day, but it gets much worse when her school is hit by the Tri-State Tornado, and she, her twin brother and her former best friend Claire, struggle to survive as the school and town are destroyed around them. Includes historical notes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
8) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
As the war continues into May 1945, eleven-year-old Molly finds herself pulled in many different directions trying to cope with her troubled father's return from war, the abrupt resignation of her favorite Red Cross volunteer, a scrap-paper drive, and a mysterious neighborhood prowler.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.
Author
Series
Journey to America volume 2
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
They left their homelands during the worst moments in history - and arrived in America ready to reach for their dreams.
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