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Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
2) In darkness
Author
Language
English
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Description
Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award
This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, a mystical bridge seems to emerge between him and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, uniting the two in their...
This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, a mystical bridge seems to emerge between him and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, uniting the two in their...
3) Iron rails, iron men, and the race to link the nation: the story of the transcontinental railroad
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Experience the race of rails to link the country--and meet the men behind this incredible feat--in a riveting story about the building of the transcontinental railroad, brought to life with archival photos"--Publisher's website.
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, fourteen-year-old Sophronia tries to uncover who is behind a plot to control a prototype that has the potential to alter human and supernatural travel, and to learn what role Mademoiselle Geraldine's academy for young spies plays in the affair.
6) Match point
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's game day, and readers of Match Point are given a court-side view of the serves and volleys that make up a tennis match. Along the way, they'll learn all about the history of tennis dating all the way back to France in the 16th century! A special section in the back of the book is chock-full of even more facts about the game and its storied history and players. It is custom-made for the fan who loves all things tennis!"--
Author
Publisher
Red Panda Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Are you looking for the perfect book for the young sports fan in your life? Are you hoping to find a book that can both engage your child as well as teach them valuable life lessons? This book is the compromise you've been looking for with life stories of some of the most famous athletes of all time. We discuss all of the challenges they faced in life and how those obstacles made them stronger and the person they became. We cover every sport from...
8) Disease
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Modern medicine is such a marvel that it's hard to imagine how deadly it was to live in the past. Sometimes it was hard to stay alive, especially in the care of an ancient doctor. Readers will learn about deadly diseases such as the many plagues that killed off millions in the Middle Ages. They'll discover just how little people knew about the spread of illness and its prevention. Historical artwork supports the intriguing, gruesome details, and...
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style--with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stowaway on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. No one suspected what--or who--they would find aboard that suspiciously empty...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
From age seven, Loma relishes traveling with her beloved grandfather across fifteenth-century Spain, working to keep the Jews safe, but soon realizes she must also make sacrifices to help her people. Includes historical notes, recipe, glossary, and a link to a bibliography.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Tate family dog, Ajax, has a run-in with a porcupine, things get prickly--and dangerous--quickly. It'll take Callie's quick thinking and doctoring, along with a little help from Dr. Pritzker, to make things right. Will Ajax learn to leave other critters alone?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annabel, once the daughter of a wealthy merchant, is trapped in indentured servitude to Lord Ranulf, a recluse who is rumored to be both terrifying and beastly. Her circumstances are made even worse by the proximity of Lord Ranulf's bailiff -- a revolting man who has made unwelcome advances on Annabel in the past. Believing that life in a nunnery is the best way to escape the escalation of the bailiff's vile behavior and to preserve the faith that...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish / Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Presents the greatest adventures of America's Westward expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase and the gold rush to the Indian wars and life of the cowboy, as well as the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
After smallpox takes their parents, seventeen-year-old Camille supports herself and her sister by magically transforming herself into a baroness in the court at Versailles, then faces difficult choices as the French Revolution looms.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"For the native peoples of the Great Plains, history is broken into two periods: before horses arrived and after. The Spanish introduced horses to these native groups around 1540, and their lives were heavily impacted. No longer did they have to hunt buffalo on foot. They could ride the speed of the herd through parts of modern-day Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and more. Readers learn much more about the lifestyles...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the...
Author
Series
The Oregon Trail volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family must survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River along the Oregon Trail, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Check out the ultimate annual video game guide from Scholastic AFK! Game On! 2021 is full of the latest information on the hottest games of 2021, how they were developed, and how to beat them. Get ready for another awesome year of gaming with this ultimate guide to all your favorite games, including a definitive list of the biggest games of the past year and hottest new ones coming in 2021! Game On! 2021 is the most comprehensive guide to all the...
Series
Oregon trail volume 8
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 1845 and your family is fleeing Florida with hopes of starting fresh out west. You'll encounter sudden snowstorms that will overwhelm your wagon train en route to the Oregon Trail. Food will become scarce--and you'll get lost. Can you survive the unseasonably cold climates? If you make the right choices, you could find the Lewis-Clark Trail, which would lead back to the Oregon Trail--though it will take longer than you'd planned. Do you have...
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