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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
244 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the winter of 1779 until 1781, Abigail Stewart and her family follow the path of her father's Continental Army unit after their Valley Forge home burns down, enduring harsh winters and scarce food, and narrowly escaping danger time and again.
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
1563) Caroline takes a chance
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Caroline and her friends Rhonda and Seth go out fishing, they sight an American supply boat being pursued by a British warship, and Caroline must come up with a daring plan to notify the town and save the boat.
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.
1565) A night divided
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
607 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In wars eighty years apart, two young women living on the same Appalachian estate determine to aid soldiers dear to them and fight for justice, no matter the cost.1944. When a violent storm rips through the Belvidere attic in No Creek, North Carolina, exposing a hidden room and trunk long forgotten, secrets dating back to the Civil War are revealed. Celia Percy, whose family lives and works in the home, suspects the truth could transform the future...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
1568) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war.
Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When World War II crashes onto his shores, Hideki is yanked out of school and drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American solider.
Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa with his squad....
1569) Trim Sets Sail
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Trim, a new ship's cat. Join Trim as he learns about: the parts of the ship, how to climb up--and down--the mast, and how to make friends with the crew. Trim wants to be the best ship's cat ever. Can he find the purr-fect way?
1570) Hero on a bicycle
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Florence, Italy, 1944: The city is under heavy Nazi occupation, but for thirteen-year-old Paolo, war is a long and boring wait. Too young to fight for the resistance, yet desperate for action and adventure, he sneaks out each night to ride his bicycle along the darkened city streets. For Paolo, the risk is thrilling. But when he is accosted by Partisans--covert members of the anti-Nazi movement--thrilling quickly becomes dangerous as Paolo and his...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Caroline and her mother make a danagerous trip across Lake Ontario to the British fort where her father is a prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to deliver a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard.
1572) Year of the Reaper
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lord Cassia is taken prisoner, while a plague sweeps over the land. Three years later, he wants only to return to his home. Meanwhile, his home has changed, and an assassin has targeted the queen.
1573) Trim Helps Out
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trim is eager to be the best ship's cat ever. Everyone else on board seems so busy.
Captain Flinders is at the helm, steering the ship. Cook is in the galley, making nice, warm biscuits. Will is high in the crow's nest, painting the sea and the sky.
Trim wants to help too. Can he find the purr-fect way?
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
The threads on Zlata's beautiful birthday shirt were knotted by her mother's hands. As Zlata twirls with excitement, thousands of tiny stitches turn into red flowers and black leaves that glisten in the candlelight. "Life has good times and hard times," Zlata's father explains. "Even though the Communists are making life difficult, we still have each other."
In the days after her birthday, the Russian Communists collect more and more grain from Ukrainian...
1575) The bluest sky
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There are two versions of Hector: the public and the private. It's the only way to survive in communist Cuba--especially when your father was exiled to the U.S. and labeled an enemy of the people. Hector must always be seen as a fierce supporter of the regime, even if that means loudly rejecting the father he still loves. But in the summer of 1980, those two versions are hard to keep separate. No longer able to suppress a public uprising, the Cuban...
1576) Allies
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
322 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...
1578) The Corpse Queen
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
315 pages, 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her "aunt." With no relations that she knows of, Molly assumes she has been sold as a maid for the price of an extra donation in the church orphanage's coffers. Such a thing is not unheard of. There are only so many options for an unmarried girl in 1850s Philadelphia. Only, when Molly arrives, she discovers her aunt is very much real,...
1579) Stone River crossing
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
325 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. When Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest...
Author
Series
Assassin's Creed Dynasty volume 2
Publisher
TOKYOPOP Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First TokyoPop Printing ;
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 14th year of the Tianbao Era (CE 755)... An Lushan, a military governor with ties to the Order of the Ancients, leads his elite corps to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, and the ill-prepared Tang empire falters under the threat. The two capitals Luoyang and Chang'an fall and China falls under the oppression of the cruel An Lushan.
As the Tang Dynasty starts to crumble, Li E, a shady assassin trained by the Hidden Ones in the far West, teams...