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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Lars Olafson's move to a farm near Valley Forge brings him friendship with the ghost of an eighteenth-century ancestor, who recounts for him his adventures in that part of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, both of the Continental Army, become frustrated with the British blockade of Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion. Includes reader's guide and author interview.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rebekah joins her missionary father in the New World in the 1630s and, after being introduced to Indian culture, begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and, along with a startling revelation about her own background, comes to understand the true nature of war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
12) The staircase
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
16) Juliet's moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
In Missouri in 1863, twelve-year-old Juliet Bradshaw learns to rely on herself and her brother, a captain with Quantrill's Raiders, as she sees her family home burned, is imprisoned by Yankees, and then kidnapped by a blood-crazed Confederate soldier.