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61) Foster's war
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the homefront.
Author
Series
Petra Luna volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"A dangerous journey. A distant dream. Based on a true story. It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna's mama has died while the Revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papa is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will take care of her abuelita, her little sister, Amelia, and her baby brother, Luisito, until they can be reunited. They flee north as their town burns, searching for safe harbor in a world that offers none. Each night,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity suspects that an amateur naturalist visiting her family's Virginia plantation may actually be a British spy mapping Patriot plantations in advance of British raids. Includes historical information about the Revolutionary War.
64) All the way home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
Author
Series
Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony diary volume 3
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In 1611, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins the family, a new strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage.
67) Rose & Alva
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Rose volume 3
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rose meets a girl named Alva, a neighbor at her Missouri farm, and together they explore the hills, pick pokeweed, explore a cave, and have other adventures in the Ozark Mountains.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
70) Worth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
74) The ugly goddess
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Princess Meret is unhappy with her future as consort of the Egyptian god Amun, especially after meeting Hector, a handsome Greek soldier, but when she is kidnapped, it is up to Hector and a young servant boy to help rescue her with the aid of the goddess Taweret.
76) The garden
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations.
78) The captive
Author
Series
Julian Escobar series volume 1
Pub. Date
[1979]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth work to protect runaway slave Sally as they travel by train with President-elect Abraham Lincoln through northern New York state in 1861 aboard The Lincoln Special, getting assistance from Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and her son Willie along the way.