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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This beloved Newbery Medal-winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.
Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Will...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.
4) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
An unabridged edition of nineteenth-century American author Louisa May Alcott's novel about four New England sisters who come of age during the Civil War, which also includes discussion questions and activity ideas for reading groups.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sand flew up into Danny's eyes. And then from behind him, a huge explosion seemed to shatter the world. The force lifted Danny off his feet and threw him onto the ground. And then Danny couldn't hear anything at all.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In World War II-era England, Michael learns about his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who risked his life to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of his race.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
171 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after her mother leaves on a trip, a package that contains family heirlooms arrives, but when strange things start to happen around the house, Felicity is convinced that the heirlooms are haunted.
Author
Series
I survived volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"During the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, one boy struggles to escape. Can he survive the most devastating disaster of ancient times? In this thrilling addition to the bestselling I SURVIVED series, readers are taken back to antiquity with a young boy trying to escape as the giant Mount Vesuvius erupts. Does he have what it takes to survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?" --
Author
Series
I survived volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
13) Refugee
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone in a Hooverville. This is her story.
“We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and there
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
154 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
351 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, twelve-year-old Audrey dreams of being an aerialist like her heroes, the Flying Wallendas, and so she is excited to go to Ringling Brothers circus with her six-year-old twin sisters; but at the show a fire breaks out, and as the crowd starts to panic Audrey struggles to reach her sisters--she gets Patty out, but Charlotte, afraid of heights, refuses to jump from the higher seats, and disappears as the big top comes...
20) Never forgotten
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.