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Author
Series
I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Second-grader Lola has a wonderful family, a great teacher, and the best friend ever, Josh, and they all help her feel better after she is teased and forbidden to play team sports at recess for having accidentally hurt classmate Juan during a soccer game.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Geronimo agrees to be part of his friend Bruce Hyena's team for a bicycle race across America, despite the fact that he is not very into sports.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: American Independence Day Fiction and Nonfiction
Children's War Fiction: Revolutionary War
Children's Recommended: American Independence Day Fiction and Nonfiction
Children's War Fiction: Revolutionary War
Description
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
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Description
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.
8) Yonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's New Books: October 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's: New e-Audiobooks February 2023
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Children's: New e-Audiobooks February 2023
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Description
"Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940. Now, with his father away fighting in World War II and his mother about to have a new baby, Danny relies on Jack's friendship and guidance more than ever. So when Jack goes missing without a trace from their small Appalachian town, Danny is determined to find him. He wonders if Jack's abusive father could be behind his...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Cornelia's veil is ruined on the day of her wedding ceremony in 1904, nine-year-old Samantha comes to the rescue. Includes information on wedding customs in the early 1900s and instructions for making a bridesmaid bouquet.
10) Return to sender
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 2
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
1987, ©1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.
Author
Series
I survived volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone -- they're marching with the army. But then orders...
Author
Series
My weird school volume 15
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
©2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
It's Presidents' Day! And Mr. Macky, the reading specialist, actually expects A.J. and his friends to read stuff about the presidents! Not only that, but he lives in a log cabin and thinks he's Abraham Lincoln! Is he for real?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
16) Stealing freedom
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
Author
Series
Sean Rosen books volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
With the help of his "manager," a thirteen-year-old boy sells a movie idea to a major Hollywood studio.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Description
"In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States."--Title page verso.
19) Calico Captive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
A historical novel based on an actual narrative. In 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian war, young Miriam Willard and her older sister's family are captured in an Indian raid on Charleston, N.H., where they are held for ransom.
20) Save me a seat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
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Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
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