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Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 12
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
100, 11, pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in San Francisco, Stanley meets a girl who enlists his help in performing a trick: escaping from Alcatraz.
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
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living in California in 1916, Margaret Singh thinks nothing of the war in Europe or the cause of Indian independence until the United States enters the war, her father is arrested, and her own allegiances are called into question. Includes author's note.
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.
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.
6) 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.
7) 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.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1963]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whenever Burt Dow, who lives in a snug little house on the Maine coast, sets out to sea, his pet giggling gull goes along. But this time, it will take all his might and some plain old ingenuity to save him and the gull from a raging storm.
Author
Series
Magic Tree House volume 22
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Magic tree house series, #22. Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
14) 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
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Vivid storytelling and authentic dialogue bring American history to life and place readers in the shoes of real people who experienced some of the most pivotal moments of the American Revolution. Battles such as Bunker Hill have begun to take their toll on both sides in the war. The Second Continental Congress meets and names George Washington as the commander in chief of the Continental Army. John Adams and Benjamin Franklin work to secure European...
16) 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"--