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2) Anthem
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing into an iceberg. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard, only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the summer Olympics, from the ancient Greek competition to the modern worldwide games, and includes historical facts, trivia, and notable Olympic athletes.
5) Caminar
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet -- he's still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at the villagers, and before they move on, a neighbor is found dangling from a tree, a sign on his neck: Communist. Mama tells Carlos to run and hide, then try to find her ... Numb and alone, he must join a band of...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Molly Moon, reunited with her parents, is hypnotized by a mysterious turbaned gardener and eventually transported to India, where she meets not only a maharajah with a speech defect but also former versions of herself.
10) Seesaw girl
Author
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2009], c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jade Blossom, who is impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, determines to see beyond her small world.
Author
Series
I survived volume 11
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Oscar Starling's mother remarries and they move to Chicago, he ends up in the heart of the big city, trapped in one of the most famous and devastating fires in history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An unusually warm winter day resulted in 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooding the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The disaster killed 21 people and injured 150 others. Rescue missions were launched to save people from the sticky and deadly mess, led by the Red Cross, the army, the navy, and the Massachusetts Nautical School. With the help of hundreds of volunteers over the course of several weeks, the streets were cleaned up....
14) Darcy
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Born on a windy hill off the coast of Ireland in 1917, a Connemara pony named Darcy is sold to a farm family and trained to pull a cart and plow.
15) Sugar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Series
I survived volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
17) Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Companion to Hour of the Olympics / Magic Tree House
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Annie and Jack present information about ancient Greece and the athletic events known as the Olympic games that were held there.
19) Hachiko waits
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor has a fatal heart attack while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies.
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
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