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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.
Author
Series
Mira's diary volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
To rescue her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Mira must travel to sixteenth-century Rome, where she befriends the painter Caravaggio and other artists and scientists under suspicion for being forward thinking individuals.
Author
Series
Mira's diary volume 4
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Mira explores the past of her familiar Bay Area, discovering layers of history in San Francisco and learning the real reason her mother has been working to change history"--
Author
Series
Mira's diary volume 3
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Instructed by her time-traveling mother to travel to World War I London and steal a German spy's briefcase, thirteen-year-old Mira enjoys meeting famous suffragists and such writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, but soon begins to struggle with whether the changes she has been working for are the right thing to do, or if history should be allowed to unfold without interference.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Picture Books for Older Readers)
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Picture Books for Older Readers)
Description
Traces the childhood dream of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1931, seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game, becoming the first professional female pitcher in baseball history.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A story of a nineteen-year-old woman who disguised herself as a man to avoid an unwanted marriage and who distinguished herself as a male nurse during the Civil War, and later as a spy for the Union Army.
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