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Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
302 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Information kidnaps the President's daughter, it is up to twelve-year-old Ruby, also known as Pufferfish, to use her super-nanobyte-enhanced allergies in leading the NERDS' investigation.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
309 p.: 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, moves to Milwaukee in 1855 to experience city life and attend school.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
189 p.: ill.; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, experiences the larger world outside of tiny Glencaraid, Scotland, when she goes to visit her married sister in Perth.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
271 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of six-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
343 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family have new adventures as the frontier outpost of Brookfield, Wisconsin, grows into a bustling town.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Eds
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
192 p.: 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1935 Alabama, when twelve-year-old MaryJake is abandoned by her financially-strapped parents and told to walk to the house of unknown relatives, she dresses like a boy and joins the household of an old widow before discovering secrets about her own family.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st HarperTrophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
250 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Continues the childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of seven-year-old Martha Morse who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st .ed
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
321 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.
Author
Publisher
HarperThrophy
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
272 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After moving with their widowed mother to the home in the woods near Concord, Wisconsin, nine-year-old Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and her brothers and sisters try to adjust to their new neighborhood and new stepfather.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After achieving her dream of becoming a teacher in her small farm town of Concord, Wisconsin, in 1857, seventeen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, begins a courtship with Charles Ingalls, a bachelor farmer who aspires to move west.
16) Bachelor girl
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having left her parents' Missouri farm for good and trained to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, teenage Rose moves out to San Francisco and joins the thousands of "bachelor girls" supporting themselves.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
73 p.: col. ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kaya and her family join with other Nez Perce and Salish Indians to fish for the red salmon, she and her older sister hope to be reunited with their younger sister, who had been kidnapped some time before. Includes historical notes on the summer activities of the Nez Perce Indians.
18) Just Lizzie
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
310 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lizzie knows what she's not. She's not at home in her new house on the other side of town, after an incident with a neighbor forced her family to move. She's not ready to say goodbye to the wild apple tree in her old backyard, or to her older brother, who just left home for his first semester of college. She's definitely not happy to be taking women's self-defense with her sworn-enemy PE teacher. And unlike her best friend--and seemingly...
19) The long winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
Author
Series
Little house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.