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(0)Maurine F Dahlberg
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1961 East Berlin, thirteen-year-old Heidi copes with the stress of a crisis with her best friend, government pressure on her father to leave his West Berlin job, her mother's pregnancy, and the ever-present threat of the closing of the border with West Berlin.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold in the Rocky Mountains, the eleven-year-old is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befriends one of her uncle's slave girls, finds out about the Underground Railroad, and discovers that people are not always exactly as they seem.
