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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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When the Great Depression takes almost everything they own, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed forests of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as her family struggles with the aftermath of an accident that has left her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 8
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin-two women born centuries apart, yet tied together by a haunting family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start working on a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a strange series of events propels her on a quest to uncover her family's French ancestry....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
6) Heidi
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Series
Publisher
Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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Language
English
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Depicts the life of Bo Mason and his family as they face a life of poverty and despair and struggle to survive during the Depression in the American Northwest.
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune--in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous...
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Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A compilation of three titles from Gary Paulsen's World of adventure series. In three stories--Escape from Fire Mountain; Hook 'Em, Snotty!; and Danger on Midnight River--the characters meet danger at every turn in the great outdoors and learn to face their fears head on. From a forest fire to a raging river to a scary bull named Diablo, the action doesn't stop.
9) Me and Jack
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
During the Vietnam War, when twelve-year-old Josh and his Air Force recruiter father move to a small town in the mountains of Pennsylvania and get a dog from the local shelter, Josh is forced to stop hanging back and takes on the unfriendly town residents, a mountain, and the meanest boy in school.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In 1937 rural Kentucky, Cora Mae starts a school newspaper to rally support for the Rural Electrification Act, but the town's resistance to change is not easy to overcome.
"Cora Mae Tipton is determined to light up her Appalachian community in this historical fiction novel from an award-winning author and former librarian. It’s 1937 and the government is pushing to bring electricity to the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. It’s all Cora can...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
'Nathan Go’s taut meditation on forgiveness and regret is told in the indelible voice of a Filipino chauffeur nearing the end of his life. After suffering a serious heart injury, Lito Macaraeg reaches out to his estranged son―a journalist who lives in the United States, far from his father’s Manila nursing home―to promise him a scoop: the story of a secret meeting between Imelda Marcos and Corazon Aquino. Imelda, best known for her excessive...
13) 300
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw....
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