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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Newbery Honor Book: A “stunning” historical novel of a teenager’s journey from Spain to the New World in search of gold (Kirkus Reviews).
Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling to the New World to hunt for gold with the Conquistadors. Whatever treasure they find, they were expected to give one-fifth of it to the king. But Esteban is accused...
Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling to the New World to hunt for gold with the Conquistadors. Whatever treasure they find, they were expected to give one-fifth of it to the king. But Esteban is accused...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A handful of Minnipins, a sober and sedate people, rise up against the Periods, the leading family of an isolated mountain valley, and are exiled to a mountain where they discover that the ancient enemies of their people are preparing to attack.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The Ingalls family moves to the Dakota territory, claims a homestead, and braves the hardships and perils of living on the frontier.
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The determination of two youngsters to win a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction. This book also includes information about the real Misty and about horses in general.
10) The long winter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
12) To be a slave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. Paired with historical commentary and powerful paintings, Julius Lester's book presents what it felt like to be a slave in America through the words of black men and women who lived it rather than filtering through the eyes...
14) Men of Athens
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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
The deeds and thoughts of ancient Greeks are reflected in a series of stories which serve as a vehicle for the portrayal of Athens' history and philosophy.
15) Dogsong
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do alone. Driven by a strange, powerful...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
17) The Egypt game
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Melanie and April turn a deserted lot into an imaginary Egypt where they spend many hours enacting rituals and consulting oracles, but there are real dangers and problems lurking outside their make-believe world that almost bring their game to a disastrous end.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City-the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone's picnic basket. Now, like any tourist...
20) Old Yeller
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old Yeller" is a timeless coming-of-age tale. Travis is left to...
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