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1) Ruby Holler
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books/Harper Collins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
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
Magic tree house volume 40
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
4) Dragon's egg
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
267 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mella, a young girl trained as a dragon keeper, learns that the legends of old are true when she is entrusted with carrying a dragon's egg to the fabled Hatching Grounds, a dangerous journey on which she is assisted by a knight's squire.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter.
6) In my pocket
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty afflict everyone on the boat on the morning in July 1939 when Jewish children sail from Holland to the safety of a new life in Scotland.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
155 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.
Author
Series
Anna and Elsa volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Olaf has news for Elsa! He has heard of a summer queen from a summer land with summer magic--someone with similar powers as Elsa's, who can control fire and heat. He says her land is trapped in an eternal summer. Olaf thinks it sounds great, but Elsa and Anna think she might be in trouble. Either way, a journey is in order!
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
314 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas when she goes to Paris with her mother and has trouble getting along with her cousin, while at home her friends start the business she proposed without her.
11) Wild bird
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In fourteenth-century Norway, the plague has destroyed Rype's entire village, and as the sole survivor, she embarks on a sweeping adventure across Europe with the son of an English ship captain and a band of troubadours in search of a brighter future and a new home.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
110 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo agrees to be part of his friend Bruce Hyena's team for a bicycle race across America, despite the fact that he is not very into sports.
13) A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple : Mayflower/Plimoth Colony, 1620
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
173 p.: 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When Clo's father goes missing, she takes the mysterious items he left behind and journeys across the sea to find him, but is stranded on a strange island and must learn to spin fish into yarn to unravel the secret of all that has happened"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
62 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
Author
Series
Seekers return to the wild volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The four bears are determined to reach Great Bear Lake before the longest day gathering, but when Lusa is separated from the others, she faces difficult questions about her future"--
17) Torn
Author
Series
The missing volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Author's note includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her parents are arrested by Chinese soldiers because of their religious beliefs, twelve-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam travel from their home in Tibet across the Himalayas to India in order to seek the help of the Dalai Lama.
Author
Series
Sydney and Taylor volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sydney is a skunk and Taylor is a hedgehog, but no matter how odd the pairing may seem, their friendship comes naturally. They live happily in their cozy burrow . . . until the day Taylor gets his Big Idea to go see the Whole Wide World. From mountains taller than a hundred hedgehogs, valleys wider than a thousand skunks, to the dangers that lie in the human world, Sydney and Taylor wanted to see it all. With a map and a dream, they bravely set off,...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1963]
Physical Desc
220 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The journal from Henry's trip across the country with the Glass family, telling of the sights they saw and the strange things which resulted when Henry and Midge became involved in innocent and blameless goings-on.