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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a thirteen hundred mile journey from Kansas to the Bitterroot Mountains, Caleb O'Toole faces deserts, tornadoes, wolves, and the infamous Blackstone Gang as he tries to honor his promise to his dying mother and keep his sisters safe.
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Harry Fogg undertakes a race against time to win a wager with a member of his famous father's club, putting to good use the recklessness and fascination with all things mechanical that have caused him trouble in Victorian England.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In Japan in 1853, at the time of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visit to Japan, Yoshi, a young Japanese boy who dreams of becoming a samurai one day, learns about America from Majiro and has adventures with Jack, a young cabin boy aboard one of the U.S. ships. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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