Anne Nesbet
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maya, in Paris with her family for a year, lands in the middle of the mysterious La Societ�'s quest for immortality when the magical Cabinet of Earths chooses her as its next Keeper, promising to restore her mother's health. Includes historical notes.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Noah Keller has a pretty normal life until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March ... As Noah, now 'Jonah Brown,' and his parents head behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin, the rules and secrets begin to pile up so quickly that he can hardly keep track of the questions bubbling up inside...