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1) The rifle
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
105 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1943
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As a young woman, Anne Shirley is embracing adulthood by becoming a productive member of society making the transition from imaginative student to respected schoolteacher. In this classic coming of age story, Anne navigates various challenges that tempt old habits and test her new maturity.
A now 16-year-old Anne continues to live with Marilla in the quaint farming town of Avonlea. While poised to start a new teaching position, Anne struggles to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead,they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anneturns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear.Manga Classics® is proud to be the only authorized manga adaption of Anne of Green Gables by the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery. This trade paperback volume presents a...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
376 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, an indentured servant in colonial Virginia, meets Basil, a kind schoolmaster, his world is opened up to music, books, and daring new attitudes on equality during a time when the American Revolution is imminent.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
260 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
12) The wolf wilder
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the third installment of the Anne of Green Gables series, Anne enrolls in college and must face new challenges inside and outside the classroom. The young student attempts to balance a vibrant social life with an intense course load that will push her to her limits.
Anne has left the comforts of Green Gables to embark on her college career. While attending Redmond College in Nova Scotia, she meets a new friend, Philippa Gordon and a potential...
15) Echo: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica...and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer with their grandmother in the rural South, three sisters from Brooklyn discover the surprising reason behind their mother's estrangement from their aunt.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1775, in Boston, Massachusetts, as the British siege brings increasing hardships and growing resentment to the community, eleven-year-old Kate decides to go against her Loyalist parents and help her cousin spy for the Patriots.
18) Paperboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
142 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1862, in Cincinnati, Ohio, as the Civil War progresses, eleven-year-old Daria and her twin brother, Andrew, begin to suspect that one of their mother's boarders is a Confederate spy.
Author
Series
A Wells and Wong mystery volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First US edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home when someone falls mysteriously ill at a family party, but no one present is what they seem so the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth.