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Author
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
Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London.
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.
8) 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...
9) The railroad
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the development of the railroad in North America and its influence on the settling of the West during the nineteenth century.
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
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the elaborate Yuletide customs of the period between 1837 and 1901, when Queen Victoria ruled Britain, and discusses how these customs were adopted and sometimes changed in the United States during the same period.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
No grizzly has ever killed a human in Glacier National Park before... until tonight. Eleven-year-old Melody Vega and her family come to Glacier every year. Mel loves it here -- the beautiful landscapes and wildlife make it easy to forget her real-world troubles. But this year is different. With Mom gone, every moment in the park is a reminder of the past. Then Mel comes face-to-face with a mighty grizzly. She knows basic bear safety: Don't turn your...
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
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...
17) One came home
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.
18) Pioneer projects
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents instructions for handicrafts and activities in the spirit of the pioneers, including decoupage, hooked rugs, corn-husk dolls, block and sponge printing, and making a Jacob's ladder.
20) May B: a novel
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
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