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Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, teenager Lee Chin and his father leave China for California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where Lee defies his father's wishes and saves money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, then brings her to join him in beginning a new life in America. Includes historical note about the Chinese who helped build the transcontinental railroad.
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sarah Wright and her father Ephraim move to Salem Village, Massachusetts, in 1692, where they witness the Salem witchcraft hysteria, during which Ephraim is arrested and Sarah must try to help him escape from jail.
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Simon, a young Polish Jew, and his family are forced by Nazis to leave their home for the filth and hunger of the Warsaw ghetto then, when his family is all taken away, he escapes to fight for survival in the countryside. Includes facts about the Holocaust.
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