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A forbidden friendship turns to love amidst the social and economic turmoil of the Populist Uprising and, as women seek political equality with men, an unlikely heroine steps forward to make history. When her father's death forces Laurel McBryde to leave her beloved childhood home in Flint Hills to live with the Hartmoors, a prsperous banking family, she feels like a lonely outcast among the prim and proper Victorians of Chisholm, Kansas. Soon,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
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SEE WHAT CAN HAPPEN...WHEN YOU FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!
Maggie Steele is a gritty farm girl from tiny Grain Valley, Kansas who pours her broken heart into the daring, dangerous sport of pole-vaulting. Driven by a secret she cannot share with anyone, Maggie finds herself on a quest to soar waaay higher than critics think a girl should ever go. Unflinching in its exploration of teenage grief with brilliant descriptions of a breathtaking, beautiful sport,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Adri's, Catherine's, and Lenore's lives are intertwined but not in the way that one would think. Adri lives in 2065 Kansas, Catherine lives in 1930s Kansas, and Lenore lives in England in 1919. As Adri is preparing to go to Mars, she stays with her cousin in Kansas, where the training takes place. Upon settling in, she comes across letters written from Lenore to Beth. Through journals and, later, letters, Catherine narrates her own story of being...
5) Ghost town
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Spencer Honesty and his imaginary friend, an Indian called Chief Leopard Frog, improbably achieve fame and riches in the abandoned town of Paisley, Kansas, when Spencer begins taking photographs with his deceased father's ancient camera and Chief Leopard Frog has his poems published by a shady businessman in the Cayman Islands.
6) Soon be free
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
7) Red Menace
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Carolrhoda Books, An imprint of Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"During the summer of 1953, thirteen-year-old Marty's parents are suspected of communist sympathies, upending his life and causing him to question what it really means to be a patriotic American"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England.
When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious...
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