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I survived volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including Oscar! Will Oscar survive one of the most famous and devastating...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
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Finding Langston volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
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Finding Langston volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
5) Being Clem
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Finding Langston volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
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