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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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 the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another...
4) Ramona
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Daughter of a Scottish merchant and Native American, Ramona's mixed-race ancestry make her a target for bigotry and abuse as the Southern California region transitions Spanish order to American statehood.
Author
Publisher
Stansbury Publishing, an imprint of Heidelberg Graphics
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
"This poignant, inspiring novel recounts one of the greatest feats of human survival ever recorded -- a story revealing the true capacity of the human spirit for hope, courage, and grace" -- adapted from back cover.
8) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
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