Deborah Wiles
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
2) Kent State
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
3) Anthem
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.