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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Author
Series
I survived volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A fictional survival story celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Normandy landings. When Paul, a French boy living in a Nazi controlled village, finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home, he has a chance to play a role in the Allies plan to crush the Nazis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
8) War horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
9) Milkweed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.
11) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties.Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main and wrestles with an explosive...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Jam Books
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Young Aniela Kaminski, a Christian girl whose family is sympathetic to the Jews, finds a happy and safe life in Chicago after fleeing the Nazis in Poland, but cannot help pondering the fate of her old friends.
15) Troublemaker
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Lizzie and Karl's mother, Mutti, working at a local zoo in Dresden, Germany, during World War II while their father is away fighting in France, brings home Marlene, a baby elephant that is slated to be destroyed as the Allied bombing grows closer, and when they are forced to flee, Mutti feels they must take Marlene with them, adding even more danger to their journey.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percé Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1764, Kaya greatly admires a courageous and kind young woman in her Nez Perce village and wants to be worthy of her respect. Includes historical notes on the winter activities of the Nez Perce Indians, including ceremonies and crafts.
20) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
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