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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.
3) Rabbit hill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
New folks are coming to live in the Big House and the animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers,
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
8) Blue willow
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1976.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
The three Morgan children accompany their recently widowed professor father to Wales, where their worsening family life is transformed by twelve-year-old Peter's discovery of the harp-tuning key of the great Welsh bard Taliesin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the author's mother, concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish government deported its Armenian population, and ending at the age of 16 when she left for America as a mail-order bride. The story continues in Finding home.
11) The good master
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
1986.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Kate, a headstrong tomboy from Budapest, learns gentle ways when she goes to live with an understanding uncle in the country. The setting is prewar Hungary.
12) Moccasin trail
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
14) The singing tree
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Life changes drastically for a Hungarian family when World War I upsets their peaceful, contented existence and the children are left in charge of the farm.