Deborah Hopkinson
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Narrates the tale of twelve-year-old Charles Dickens who, despite poverty and long hours of factory work, still has time to discover and share the stories of other residents of 1824 London. Includes author's note about Dickens' life and some of the books he wrote.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Chronicles the women's rights movement in the United States, from the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth century and the fight for equal rights in the 1960s to such present-day events as the Women's March in 2017
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As a child, John Avery Lomax loved the songs he heard the cowboys singing along the nearby Chisholm Trail. He began writing them down at an early age. As John grew older, he traveled the country collecting and recording cowboy songs, helping to preserve many favorites.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"The WWII invasion of Allied troops into German-occupied Europe, known as D-Day, was the largest military endeavor in history. By the time it occurred on June 6, 1944, Hitler and the Axis powers had a chokehold grip on the European continent, which the Allies called "Fortress Europe." Behind enemy lines, Nazi Germany was engaged in the mass extermination of the Jewish people and the oppression of civilians across Europe. The goal of D-Day was no less...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Sal drives a stagecoach alone for the first time to pick up and deliver mail, her mother is afraid she will meet local outlaw Poetic Pete, but Sal not only excels at roping, riding, and shooting, she is also an excellent singer.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Unlike most girls of her time, Susan B. Anthony received an education. Her schooling taught her that women should have the same rights as men, above all the right to vote. From the time she was a young woman until the day she died, Susan worked very hard to change American and make her dream a reality.
31) Annie and Helen
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explores the lives of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, and how Annie helped Helen learn to speak and write. Presents information about brail and sign language.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
This Little Golden Book about Betty White--television star, comedian, animal lover, and game show competitor--is a celebration of the beloved woman, in time for her 100th birthday! A great read-aloud for young girls and boys--as well as their parents and grandparents who grew up watching Betty on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls.
35) Only one
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"This picture book showcases the unique beauty of our one-and-only universe--its galaxies, stars, and planets--as well as our one-and-only Earth, and the precious life it contains"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"As the sun sank over the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, one warm October night in 1871, a smoky haze hung in the dry air. There had been little rain, and small fires had been rolling through town continuously since the summer. For weeks the people had tried to protect their homes and businesses from fire. But they could not protect themselves from what would culminate in the deadliest fire in American history. As industrialization surged across the...
37) Trim sets sail
Author
Series
[Adventures of Trim] volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When Trim gets off to a bumpy start as ship's cat, new friends, human and animal, help him settle in.
39) Bluebird summer
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Gramps's farm isn't the same after Grandma's death, but slowly Mags and Cody work to recreate her spirit by bringing back some of the things she loved.
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