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Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of LEE & LOW BOOKS, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: Diwali and Indian Culture
Children's Special Topics: Diwali and Indian Culture
Description
"In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England.
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