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Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Vivid, gripping and actually riveting as the Red Danger takes a whole new meaning here. Loved it." —The Book Smugglers
It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies—Jews and Bolsheviks—his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the mad monk...
It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies—Jews and Bolsheviks—his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the mad monk...
3) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
4) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
Author
Series
Young heroes (Jane Yolen) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Odysseus, who longs to be a hero, has many opportunities to prove himself during an adventure which involves pirates and satyrs, a trip to Crete's Labyrinth, and the two young girls, Penelope and Helen, who play a major role in his future life.
Author
Series
Young heroes (Jane Yolen) volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jason, who will grow up to become the head of the Argonauts, leads five other boys on a dangerous quest to save the kingdom of Iolcus, learning along the way what it means to be in command.
Author
Series
Young heroes (Jane Yolen) volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Atalanta discovers a home and friendship with a bear, misunderstanding from town-dwellers, and grudging respect from the great hunter Orion, as together they pursue a mysterious creature that killed her father.
10) Centaur rising
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
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