Gary D Schmidt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Seventh-grader Hercules Beal has to figure out how to fulfill his teacher's assignment of performing the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and discovers important things about friendship, community, and himself along the way.
From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars,in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill an assignment to perform the Twelve Labors of Hercules...
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind a prosperous life in England, William Bradford and the other Pilgrims traveled on the Mayflower to a strange land in search of religious freedom. There Bradford established a stable colony, trying to be fair to both the colonists and the local Native Americans
3) Almost time
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Ethan eagerly anticipates making maple syrup with his father, but it will not be time until the days are warmer, the nights shorter, and Ethan's loose tooth falls out.
4) First boy
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is.