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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Canadians have been immigrating to America since the formation of our country. Canadian Americans explains the how's and why's of the Canadian immigration to America and reveals the Canadian American experience to be a story of rich cultural tradition passed into the New World. America is blessed with a diversity derived from many different cultural groups. Each of the immigrants who has landed so bravely on our shores has had an exciting story to...
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery. One fateful afternoon, he steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdasher - a box that contains three pairs of magical eyes. When he tries the first pair, he is instantly transported to a hidden island where he is presented with a special quest: to travel to the dangerous Vanished Kingdom and rescue a people...
Author
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Uses postcards, letters, and photographs to examine World War I from the viewpoint of Canadian participation, and contains the complete text of the poem In Flanders fields, by Canadian medical officer, John McCrae, including the context in which it was written and the impact it had worldwide.
Author
Series
Mrs. Mike series volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The epic story of William Ash and the escape from Stalag Luft III German POW camp during World War II"--
Author
Series
Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"The four cousins from the Windy Lake First Nation are back for another mystery in Book Three of the Mighty Muskrats Mystery Series -- the first two books in the series are The Case of the Missing Auntie (Book Two) and The Case of Windy Lake (Book One). The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats: Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, home isn't where you expect to find it. After losing his mom in a fatal car crash, Kaede Hirano--now living with a grandfather who is more stranger than family--developed anger issues and spent his last year of middle school acting out. Best-friendless and critically in danger repeating the seventh grade, Kaede is given a summer assignment: write an essay about what home means to him, which will be even tougher now that he's on his way...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud's personal life. Her childhood was spent with...
Author
Series
Mrs. Mike series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A young woman who had been raised in Boston marries a member of the Northwest Mounted Police and goes with him to live in the Canadian wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Dieter has grown up in Germany during Hitler's rise to power, believing everything that he has been told, but as his involvement in the war increases, he finds himself questioning these beliefs as he fights for survival.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Running away from a vicious trapper, seven-year-old Ben MacDonald is separated from his family and eventually ends up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians.
17) Global
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.
18) Robert Munsch
Author
Series
Publisher
AVp2s by Weigl
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Short biographies of ten Black women from Canada and the United States, ranging from 1793 to the present. Anti-slavery activists, business women, community organizers, and educators; they were, and are, leaders committed to uplifting their communities.
20) Factory girl
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emily must hold down her job working twelve-hour days in a garment factory in order to keep from starving. A story that includes historical interludes about the working conditions in factories at the turn of the century.
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