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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After being forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Roger Williams travels south and, with the help of the Narragansett Indians, founds Providence, Rhode Island.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is told by a mysterious friar that he, Lambert, is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
Medieval mysteries (Avi) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When King Claudio sends Mangus the Magician and his faithful servant, Fabrizio, to Venice to steal a manuscript that explains a magical method of making money, they must succeed in their mission or risk death. The manuscript is key to obtaining great profits for the king―and a secure future for Mangus and Fabrizio. But Venice in 1492 is a dangerous place, full of foggy canals, cunning informers, and harsh punishments for those who steal its secrets....
10) Loyalty
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
To avenge his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British during the American Revolution, witnessing firsthand the hypocrisy, lies, and allegiances that come with war, and must determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
Author
Series
Oliver Cromwell Pitts volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Running with a group of friends who entertain themselves by coming up with risky dares, Patryk watches as their village is occupied by hostile nations throughout the Great War, before his friends begin looting the dead soldiers as part of their competition.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Publisher
Blazer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Grieving for Bear, their lost protector, Crispin and Troth continue their journey across the 14th century French countryside where Troth finds refuge in a convent and Crispin falls in with a troupe of murderous thieves. Making plans to escape and free the troupe's servant boy, Crispin determines to make his way to Iceland.
16) Gold rush girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While her father mines for gold in 1848 San Francisco, Tory embarks on a search for her kidnapped brother among Rotten Row's hundreds of abandoned ships.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
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