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Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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
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.
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?"--
4) 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.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
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
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When his Uncle Jesse heads to the Pike's Peak region of the Rocky Mountains to look for gold, Early Wittcomb follows in hopes of raising enough money to save the family farm, but the journey west is full of hardships.
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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. The boys agree....
Author
Series
Publisher
Wei lai chu ban she
Pub. Date
2013
Language
中文(繁體)
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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
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
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
Author
Series
Xiao lu da jiang xiao shuo volume SP021
Publisher
Xiao lu wen hua
Pub. Date
2009
Language
中文(繁體)
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Description
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
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Description
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
"Un capitán despiadado, una tripulación amotinada y una joven atrapada en medio. No cualquier joven es acusada de asesinato, llevada a juicio y declarada culpable. Pero yo era precisamente esa joven, y merece la pena contar mi historia incluso aunque sucediera años atrás...
Author
Series
Crispin volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
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