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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. This novel is about a strong young woman in medieval England who finds her own way home. This is a world, like Chaucer's, that's - dangerous, primitive and raucous. From the first page you're caught by the spirit...
2) Ox-cart man
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
©1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Duffy and the Devil was a popular play in Cornwall in the nineteenth century, performed at the Christmas season by groups of young people who went from house to house. The Zemachs have interpreted the folk tale which the play dramatized, recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story. Its main themes are familiar, but the character and details of this picture book are entirely Cornish, as robust and distinctive as the higgledy-piggledy,...
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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.
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