Carolyn Meyer
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century England, young Charles Darwin rejects the more traditional careers of physician and clergyman, choosing instead to embark on a dangerous five-year journey by ship to explore the natural world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross.
12) White lilacs
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.
13) Jubilee journey
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Emily Rose has always felt comfortable growing up in Connecticut with her African American mother and her "French American" father, but when they spend some time with her great-grandmother in Texas, Emily Rose learns about her black heritage and uncovers some new and exciting parts of her own identity.
14) Gideon's people
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1996]
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Torn between youthful rebellion and their traditional heritages, two boys from very different cultures--one Amish, one Orthodox Jew--discover just how similar they really are.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.
17) Isabel
Author
Series
Publisher
Schoastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabel, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century Europe, Anna "Nannerl" Mozart, a musician whose talent and dedication is overshadowed by that of her gifted younger brother, Wolfgang, struggles to win the notice of her father and patrons who might further her career, despite her gender.