Scott O'Dell
1) Sarah Bishop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
2) Zia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Includes all Three Books:
The Captive
The Feathered Serpent
The Amethyst Ring
What would you do if everyone thought you were a god?
Young Juliá́n Escobar is traveling to the New World to spread the gospel to the newly discovered Mayan Empire when a hurricane strikes his ship, scattering its contents to the four winds and leaving Julian as the sole survivor. After struggling ashore, he encounters a
...6) The 290
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shipyard apprentice finds high adventure aboard the S.S. Alabama, a Confederate ship which sails the Atlantic destroying Union vessels.
Author
Language
English
Description
Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into four main sections: the constitutional debate regarding the establishment and free exercise of religion clause, the themes of violence and nonviolence as they relate to religion, the free exercise...
10) Child of fire
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A parole officer relates his efforts to keep the violence and heroics of two young Chicanos under control.
11) The captive
Author
Series
Julian Escobar series volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.