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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Tartar raids kill the father of Temujin and banishes his family from the land; but when he grows older, he assembles a small army of men and begins raiding Tartar camps and eventually unites all the Mongol tribes together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
Crusading folk hero or murderous horse thief and bank robber? Who was the real Ned Kelly? His name resonates in Australia the same way the name Jesse James does in America. As the impoverished son of an Irish convict, Kelly was cheated, lied to, and abused by the English. Committed to fighting back against oppression, Kelly and his gang of outlaws eluded police for nearly two years. Brilliantly novelized by Peter Carey, the story of the Kelly Gang...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The lives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and country lawyer George Edalji intersect when Doyle becomes interested in investigating the case of Edalji who has been wrongfully convicted of writing obscene letters and mutilating cattle in a case clearly influenced by racial prejudice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Description
Civil War novel traces the lives, passions, and careers of military leaders Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee, who all meet on the same battlefield for the first time at Fredericksburg, where they experience the battle from four very different points of view.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
13) Dragon teeth
Author
Series
Michael Crichton volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond defied the odds and used all of his courage and wits to survive the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge. When soldiers arrive at his hometown in Cambodia, Arn is just a kid, dancing to rock n roll, hustling for spare change, and selling ice cream with his brother. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is separated from his family and assigned...
16) Schindler's list
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory camp to protect Jews in World War II Germany.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders.
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