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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
231 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1863, while engaged in the fierce battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1943
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
4) Seabird
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1948
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
58 pages : illustrations, part color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An ivory gull carved by Ezra Brown in 1832 brings luck to four generations of his family as they travel on the seas and in the air.
5) Rebel Hart
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000, 2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xi, 173 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A farm girl from the mountains of what would become West Virginia leaves home to join a group of rebel raiders who strike Federal Army encampments during the Civil War.
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
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
301 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
9) Calico bush
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1931
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xi, 201 p. illus. 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Loyalty
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Newbery Medalist Avi explores the American Revolution from a fresh perspective in the story of a young Loyalist turned British spy navigating patriotism and personal responsibility during the lead-up to the War of Independence.
When his father is killed by rebel vigilantes, Noah flees with his family to Boston. Intent on avenging his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British and firsthand witness to the power of partisan rumor to distort facts,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
156 p.: ill.; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A quest story to find the three pieces of a magical engine which can either win the War of 1812...or stop it altogether"--
14) The winter of red snow: the diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777-1778
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
173 p.: 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
69 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life as slaves in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.
16) Countdown
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
377 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
77 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
18) Calico captive
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2001], c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
274 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the French and Indian War, young Miriam Willard is captured by Indians and taken to Montreal.
19) Rifles for Watie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey cannot wait to join the Army and defend the Union against the dreaded Colonel Watie, but when he is assigned to infiltrate the enemy camp as a spy, he discovers the rebels are boys and men just like him, and he must then decide whether to betray his enemies or join them.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
