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Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
141 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, "times are tough" for Anna Harrington. But times are even tougher for some of her friends, who've been devastated by the Great Depression. Dot's family is hungry and may lose its home, while Chet, riding the rails as a hobo in search of work, is in trouble with the law. Twelve-year-old Anna and her cousin, Fred, watch in sorrow as the others suffer, wondering what they can do to show God's love to their friends. Soon they come up with some...
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While living with her aunt in the English countryside, a naughty nine-year-old girl named Ruth finds her life changed when she asks the Good Shepherd, Jesus, to come to her.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
xi, 260 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the best quarterbacks in the history of college football traces his path to success, discussing his childhood as the son of Christian missionaries and how his faith combined with his drive to succeed have made him the person he is today.
Author
Series
Rock Harbor search and rescue volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an expensive necklace is stolen from a renowned jewelry artist at Rock Harbor's fall festival, Emily is accused of the crime. It looks like she'll never get her puppy and be able to join the Rock Harbor Search and Rescue team, so Emily sets out to find the real culprit.
Author
Series
The Baxter family children volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While Kari Baxter eagerly awaits a meteor shower and frets over what she wants to be when she grows up, Ashley gets an idea for how to keep her siblings from growing up too fast.
Author
Series
Baxter family children volume 4
Publisher
A Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
277 pages.
Language
English
Description
Kari and Ashley go through the ups and downs of summer camp together. School science camp is a few weeks away, but Ashley and Kari Baxter have very different feelings about going. With the help of their siblings, Kari and Ashley prepare for wild experiments and the challenges of the great outdoors, and together they learn what it means to plan for an experience they won't forget. In the process, all five Baxter Children learn how to make new friends...
9) Finding home
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Ashley, moving to Bloomington, Indiana, is especially hard, but with time, prayer, a few surprises, and especially the love of her family, she finally feels at home.
Author
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
144 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As World War II draws to a close, Laura comes to admire her Japanese American neighbor whose father is fighting for the U.S. Army in Europe, but will she be strong enough to defend her new friend from the persecution of schoolmates?
Author
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nellie Starr, a young Cherokee girl, and her family are forced by U.S. soldiers to leave their home in Tennessee and travel the "Trail of Tears" to a new home in the western Indian territory.
Author
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
141 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Natural disasters and social attitudes in 1832 Cincinnati threaten to ruin twelve-year-old Emma Farley's secret hope. Can she rise above them to live her God-given dreams?
Author
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
142 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1903, eleven-year-old immigrant Maureen Stevenson is ready to become a U.S. citizen--just as soon as she solves the case of who's stealing artwork from her employer's mansion.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
259 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and her Gran, but Gran and BJ die, and her mother is jailed unjustly. Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.
Author
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Mexican American Rosa Sanchez wants an education more than anything, but when her teachers leave Texas in search of a better life, how will her dream come true?
19) Best family ever
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never be the same. But they find that being together with the ones you love is the most important part of home"--
Author
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In colonial Boston, a twelve-year-old girl finds her heart stirred by the great revival known as the Great Awakening and determines she must dare to help a mistreated slave girl.
