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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression is faced with prejudice and discrimination that its children do not understand.
4) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
At once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegory. Orphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative, miserly and reclusive Uncle Ebenezer. But Ebenezer is far from welcoming, and David narrowly escapes being murdered before he is kidnapped and imprisoned on a ship bound for the Carolinas. When the ship is wrecked, David, along with the fiery rebel Alan Breck, makes his way back across the treacherous...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Just in time for the 2014 Fifa World Cup, Jack and Annie go to a soccer field in Mexico where they must find the final secret of greatness for Merlin. On the field, they'll meet a young soccer player who dreams of one day playing in the World Cup just like his hero, the great Brazilian soccer player, Pele!
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
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Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.
10) A night divided
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
11) A mutiny in time
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks-- a mutiny on the Santa María-- to correct history and defeat the SQ.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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When Lora joins Castro's literacy campaign, she travels into the impoverished countryside to teach her fellow Cuban's to read and write, while sharing the dangers posed by counterrevolutionaries in the hills.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back in time to meet famed Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius!"--
''Travel back in time in the magic tree house with Jack and Annie in this #1 bestselling series and meet the greatest warriors of all--the Romans! We are warriors! Jack and Annie have met knights, pirates, ninjas, and Vikings, but they have never met the most fearsome warriors of all: Roman soldiers. When the magic tree house whisks them back...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant ocean liner.
16) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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''This Top Five Classics edition of GREAT EXPECTATIONS Includes: • More than 30 black and white and color illustrations • The original ending, included as an addendum at the end of the book • Author biography and bibliography • Introduction GREAT EXPECTATIONS is Charles Dickens's beloved, autobiographical tale of a poor boy haunted by a dark secret and harboring grand hopes for his future as a gentleman. Pip, the story's narrator, takes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
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