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Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl(r)
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1939, twelve-year-old Neela meets a young freedom fighter at her sister's wedding and soon after must rely on his help when her father fails to return home from a march in Calcutta against British occupation.
2) Ahimsa
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when ten-year-old Anjali's mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother's work.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the McCready sisters' parents are washed away in a tsunami, their Great Aunt Martha volunteers to have them live with her on her farm in British Columbia. But while they are traveling there, Martha dies unexpectedly, forcing Fiona, the eldest, to come up with a scheme to keep social services from separating the girls - a scheme that will only work if no one knows they are living on their own. Fiona approaches their grouchy and indifferent neighbor...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of the burning of the White House by the British during the War of 1812 from the perspectives of its witnesses, including First Lady Dolley Madison, a British officer, and a nine-year-old slave.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Author
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, the Endurance, was finally crushed and Shackleton and his men made the very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"--...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Provides facts about the grizzly, black, and spirit bears of the Great Bear Rainforest on British Columbia's central coast, and examines their relationship with the salmon population.
Author
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A heart-warming and true story about an orphaned orca named Springer who was found swimming alone in the Puget Sound in 2002. The book takes us on Springer's journey from being near starvation to rescued to then the challenges of her release, eventual adoption, and the start of her own family."--
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"English explorer Henry Hudson had long searched for a quicker, northern sailing route from Europe to Asia. Three previous expeditions had failed. In 1610, he embarked again to find the fabled Northwest Passage. But when icy waters stranded Hudson and theDiscovery in a bay for the winter, tensions flared. The crew lost faith in their captain's leadership and began to plot...mutiny! Told through the gripping, full-color graphic novel format, this Deadly...
17) Going solo
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Relocating from London to New York City with her family in the aftermath of her mother's death, Kitty struggles to adjust to a different culture, before an unlikely friendship inspires alternate perspectives on how to keep her mother's memory alive.
19) The ring of fire
Author
Series
Young samurai volume 6
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After a snowstorm forces English orphan Jack Fletcher to take shelter in a village, the samurai must decide either to stay and protect the villagers from raiding mountain bandits or keep moving on.
Author
Series
Young samurai volume 4
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On the run with no sensei to guide him, Jack Fletcher journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki, where he hopes to find a ship home to England.
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