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Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Avon the snail decides to become a writer with the help of his friend Edward the ant, which leads them into a series of adventures involving close encounters with an anteater, a crow, a tree frog, and a hungry fish.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jane Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence - until her father leaves...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
9) Emily Upham's revenge: or, How Deadwood Dick saved the banker's niece : a Massachusetts adventure
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1875, a seven-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery.
10) Midnight magic
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.
12) Ereth's birthday
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
13) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
14) The player king
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is told by a mysterious friar that he, Lambert, is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne. Based on a true story.
15) The good dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Description
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of fifteen-year-old Maura, her younger brother Patrick, a young stowaway, and some unusual characters as they sail from England to the New World in 1851.
Author
Series
Beyond the western sea volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 6th-8th Grade
Children's Recommended: American Independence Day Fiction and Nonfiction
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's War Fiction: Revolutionary War
Children's Recommended: American Independence Day Fiction and Nonfiction
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's War Fiction: Revolutionary War
Description
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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