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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Growing up with six brothers in rural Texas in 1899, 12-year-old Callie realizes that her aversion to needlework and cooking disappoints her mother. She prefers to study the natural world with her grandfather, which leads to an important discovery.
4) Lemons
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
7) Echo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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.
8) Paperboy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
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
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s, Kitty is one of only two white children in her class on Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, where her father is a government forester, and although past injustices and pain are still very much alive there, she eventually finds friendships and opportunities to make a difference.
12) Liberty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children.
13) Makoons
Author
Series
Birchbark House volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
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