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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.
Author
Series
Kronos chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
Author
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Penny and her friends have always taunted an eccentric old gypsy whom they call the Queen of Sheba. When a teacher assigns a history project, Penny interviews her grandmother, who tells her about her youth and about the Queen of Sheba, whom she once knew. When Penny's grandmother has a heart attack and dies, the woman comes to pay her respects.
Author
Series
Kronos chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their friends become entangled in the competition for the Roma crown and set out for Prague in hopes of finally finding a cure for Petra's father.
Author
Series
Kronos chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their Roma friends Neel and Tomik are surprised by revelations about Dee, Kit, and Petra's father as they face Prince Rodolfo of Bohemia, who will do anything to possess a powerful object, the Celestial Globe.
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.
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