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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Explores the vital ties between fathers and sons, sharing tales of a boy who seeks to understand the wishes of his father's ghost and a boy who makes surprising discoveries while camping with the eccentric grandfather he just met.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. The boys agree....
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival...
Author
Series
Crispin volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After his father is killed during the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Tom takes on a job to at the ironworks to support his family, and finds himself a target of ruthless spies when he begins assisting with the ironclad ship the "Monitor."
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
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.
12) Emily Upham's revenge: or, How Deadwood Dick saved the banker's niece : a Massachusetts adventure
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1875, a seven-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle in Massachusetts and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery.
13) Perloo the Bold
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Perloo, a peaceful scholar who has been chosen to succeed Jolaine as leader of the furry underground people called the Montmers, finds himself in danger when Jolaine dies and her evil son seizes control of the burrow.
15) Silent movie
Author
Publisher
An Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie, in a picture book that evokes an actual silent movie.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.
18) Gold rush girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jane Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence - until her father leaves...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the first mate of the freight boat Neptune falls ill, it is up to Abigail, the captain's daughter, to steer the ship up the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York City.