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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Author
Publisher
Tokyo Sogensha
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
日本語
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Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Publisher
Taiwan dong fang chu ban she
Pub. Date
2001
Language
中文（繁體）
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Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Awards: Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Children's War Fiction: Civil War
Children's Awards: Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Children's War Fiction: Civil War
Description
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
One of children's literature's most memorable characters returns in this Christmastime companion to the Newbery Medal-winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago. The eccentric, larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel is back in this heart-warming tale. Set 20 years after the events of A Year Down Yonder, it is now 1958 and a new family has moved in next door: a Methodist minister and his wife and kids. Soon Grandma Dowdel...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
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