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21) Secrets at sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This picture book tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination - when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for...
23) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, the engaging orphan, just "half-past sixteen," becomes a schoolma'am in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
26) My own lightning
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classrooom, where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in."--T.p. verso.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family...
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Series
Publisher
One Elm Books, an imprint of Red Chair Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Abandoned by her white father, thirteen-year-old Red Dove faces another lean winter with her Lakota family on the Great Plains. Willful and proud, she is presented with a difficult choice: leave her people to live in the white world, or stay and watch them starve. Red Dove begins a journey to find her true place in the world and discovers that her greatest power comes from within herself."--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After moving from Malone, New York, to Spring Valley, Minnesota, in the 1870s, fourteen-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who would grow up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and his family must decide whether to stay out west or return home to the life they have always known.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems. Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why, not because of his Astonishing...
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
35) The dreamweavers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twin siblings journey through the City of Ashes and visit the Jade Rabbit to save their grandpa in this Chinese folklore-inspired fantasy adventure"--
36) Forge
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck is a dog born to luxury, but his life changes dramatically when he is sold to be a sled dog in the Yukon Terrority. He earns a reputation for his strength and courage, and is rescued from a series of bad owners by John Thornton, who teaches him to love. When John is...
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