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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1704, Mohawk Indians attack the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping and marching over 100 residents, including seven-year-old Eunice Williams, to Canada where she is eventually adopted into a Mohawk family and remains there willingly for the rest of her life. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
Summer of My German Soldier volume 1
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
230 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness," and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
84) Stitches in time
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"New to Stoney Ridge, schoolteacher Mollie has come to town for a fresh start. When Luke Schrock, new to his role as deacon, asks the church to take in foster girls from a group home, she's the first to raise her hand. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together. The 11-year-old twins she takes in bring her sleepless nights and police visits... and then the girls accuse Mollie of...
85) McKenna
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
124 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Series
American Girl volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Isabelle finds a creative way to use her talent for fashion design to help her older sister Jade, who is performing the role of Clara in the Nutcracker ballet.
88) After a fashion
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a difficult client causes shop girl Harriet Peabody to lose her job, wealthy businessman Oliver Addleshaw offers her enough money to start her own shop in exchange for posing as his fianc�e.
89) Some Girls Do
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An openly gay track star falls for a closeted, bisexual teen beauty queen with a penchant for fixing up old cars"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall. But even to the balloon makers Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything--including her only way home--to...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and...
94) Appaloosa zebra
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[36] p.: col. ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving through the alphabet, a girl ponders the many different kinds of horses she will have when she gets older, from Appaloosa to zebra.
95) The hunger games
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Series
Joe Grey volume 13
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a traumatized girl's witness to a holiday-season shooting, feline sleuth Joe Grey, his girlfriend Dulcie, and their tortoise-shell companion Kit endeavor to track down a killer and assist an investigation by stumped human police.
97) Lucky Girl
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Rosie Fuller struggles to cope with a sexual assault, a new romance, problems with her best friend, and feeling distant from her mother.
98) Lonestar angel
Author
Series
Lonestar volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
When Eden Larson's estranged husband, Clay, delivers the news that their lost baby girl who was kidnapped years earlier may have been found, the couple's love for each other is rekindled as they investigate.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.