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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator, " also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A few hours after Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble, the rains came to end a long drought on the farm. Garnet feels that the thimble is some kind of talisman. It certainly brought excitement!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a bright future ahead of him, injures his hand in a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse-boy, riding for the patriotic newspaper, The Boston Observer, and as a messenger for the Sons of Liberty, he encounters John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Dr. Joseph Warren. Soon Johnny is involved in the pivotal events shaping the American Revolution from the...
10) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having runaway with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
14) Number the stars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
17) Shiloh
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
18) The giver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
19) Strawberry girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Trophy
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The story of the feud between the Slaters and the Boyers in Florida during the 1900s.
20) Walk two moons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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