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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
184 p.
Language
English
Description
Dear America series. Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
178 p.
Language
English
Description
Dear America series. Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
205 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
293 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
324 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
293 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spring, 1846: Douglas Allen Deeds dreams of starting a new life out West. When the opportunity to join the Donner Party Expedition arises, he leaves the life he's known behind to set out on the nearly 2,000-mile trek from Independence, Missouri to sunny California.
But progress is slow. Brutal heat, poisoned water, and rough terrain slows the expedition down. Soon they have a choice: continue on the known but grueling trail, or take a shortcut that...