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Author
Series
I survived volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Aladdin paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
With his beloved black cat Grimalkin as his constant companion, the young Quaker boy Benjamin West discovers and develops his talent as an artist.
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?
4) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
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
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
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Portrays the joys and troubles of five high-spirited Jewish sisters as they grow up in New York City.
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
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
82 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
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?
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
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?
15) 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.
16) Ship of dolls
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland and rejoin her mother in San Francisco. Lexie's class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns that the girl who writes the best letter to accompany the doll will be sent to the farewell ceremony in San Francisco, she knows she just has to be the winner.
18) Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1986. When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.