David A. Adler
Author
Series
Andy Russell series volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When their regular teacher is sick, Andy's fourth-grade class gets a substitute teacher, providing lots of opportunities for Andy and his friends to get in trouble.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When, in 1879, a bust in his likeness was placed at the University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass wrote: "Incidents of this character do much amaze me. It is not, however, the height to which I have risen, but the depth from which I have come that amazes me." This biography tells the story of his ascent from slavery.
Author
Series
Andy Russell series volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When some of his gerbils escape and he gets in trouble for not paying attention in class, fourth-grader Andy Russell worries about asking if a friend can move in with his family--especially when he learns that his mother is going to have another baby.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1940, thirteen-year-old Tommy's routine of school, playing stickball in his Bronx, New York, neighborhood, talking with his friend Beth, and listening to Dodgers games on the radio changes as his mother's illness and his increasing awareness of the war in Europe transform his world.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shows the historical events of the Holocaust through the eyes of young Froim Baum born in 1936 and sent to the Dachau death camp before being liberated by American soldiers.--
A harrowing true tale of the Warsaw Ghetto shows the tragic historical events of the Holocaust through the eyes of young Froim Baum, born in 1936 and sent to the Dachau death camp before being liberated by American soldiers.--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive introduction to the life and achievements of the heroic former slave details how after managing her own escape, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to guide other slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, in a portrait that also relates her subsequent contributions as a wartime cook, nurse, spy, and suffragist.