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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."
10) Onion John
Author
Series
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
1959
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
12) The bronze bow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1963, 1950
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The Newbery Award winner, based on a true story! Captured by slave traders when only fifteen, At-mun never forgot his roots as a prince. Nor did he ever lose his princely dignity and the courage to hold his head high. Sold at auction in America and haunted by the memory of his young sister left behind in Africa, At-mun, now Amos, began his long march to freedom. He dreamed of being free and of buying the freedom of his closest friends. By the time...
15) Shadow of a bull
Author
Series
Description
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
17) Thimble summer
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!
19) Call it courage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1968, 1927
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
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