Gregory Kristiana
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A fictional diary of Princess Sophie, later named Catherine, from 1743 until 1745, when at age fifteen she is married to her second cousin Peter, Grand Duke of Russia, who will one day be Emperor. Includes historical notes on her later life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In her diary, eleven-year-old Hope writes about her life in 1778 Philadelphia as British Redcoats take over her family's house, her father fights with the Continental Army at Valley Forge, and she gains a new friend and new baby sister. Includes an historical note.
12) We are patriots
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by an Indian raid while traveling West with a wagon train, fifteen-year-old Carrie Hill is befriended by the English trapper Beaver Dick and taken to live with his Indian wife Jenny and their six children.
15) Orphan runaways
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Harrowing adventures accompany twelve-year-old Danny and his younger brother Judd when they run away from a San Francisco orphanage and search for their uncle in a gold rush boom town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From the winter of 1779 until 1781, Abigail Stewart and her family follow the path of her father's Continental Army unit after their Valley Forge home burns down, enduring harsh winters and scarce food, and narrowly escaping danger time and again.
Author
Series
Cabin Creek mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Having been told that Lost Island is off limits until David is ten, Jeff and ten-year-old David Bridger start out to explore Lost Island and uncover the legend about a real robber, a cave, stolen treasure, a sheriff, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In her diary, eleven-year-old Hope writes about her life in 1778 Philadelphia as British Redcoats take over her family's house, her father fights with the Continental Army at Valley Forge, and she gains a new friend and new baby sister. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Cabin Creek mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jeff, David, and Claire love their winter break jobs at the ski chalet on Blue Mountain where they get to snowboard and go sledding between shifts of cleaning and tending to the grounds, but when things start missing from the chalet, the cousins find themselves prime suspects.
Author
Series
Cabin Creek mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"It's the middle of the night when Jeff spots someone dumping a large bundle into the lake. It's too dark to identify anyone -- or anything. But the cousins immediately suspect foul play, and plunge right into the mystery. Before they know it, the kids of Cabin Creek are in too deep. Everyone is a suspect -- and the cousins are all in danger!"--P. [4] of cover.