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Series
Birchbark house volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Traces the 1897 survival tale of hundreds of sailors whose whaling ships were trapped in Arctic ice off the coast of Alaska by unexpected storms, in an account that chronicles the efforts of three rescuers dispatched by President McKinley.
Author
Series
I survived volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
6) Set me free
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
Author
Series
Magnificent Lizzie Brown volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fitzy's Circus performs at Whitby where a ghost ship haunts the harbor, but when a valuable necklace goes missing, the circus performers are immediately suspected and it is up to Lizzie to use her psychic abilities to discover the true criminals.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Lake District, 1899. The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she is not alone on her quest for the truth. On the last day of the year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light creeps through the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witchwith a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
Author
Series
I survived volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....
12) Show me a sign
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Series
Magnificent Lizzie Brown volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Lizzie is now an established member of Fitzy's Circus, but when the circus arrives in Kensal Green they are plagued by accidents and sickness--and Lizzie needs to put her psychic talents to use to solve the mystery of a graveyard haunted by a devil hound.
14) Airman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Littletee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Author
Series
Magnificent Lizzie Brown volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When the circus arrives in town, Lizzie must compete with a fraudulent medium and when a child she was watching disappears, Lizzie finds herself under suspicion and needs to use her own visions to find the kidnapper and save the child.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful," Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happenedto Nell's own father. Includes author's note and bibliographic references.
Author
Series
City of orphans volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jem Barbary becomes a bogler's apprentice in 1870's London and gets the fright of his life in a city where science clashes with superstition and monsters lurk in every alley.
20) The last bogler
Author
Series
City of orphans volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ned Roach becomes a bogler's apprentice as Victorian London seeks to banish its bogle infestation once and for all in this conclusion to the trilogy featuring young assistants to Victorian London's best monster catcher, Alfred Bunce.
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