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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
7) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
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Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed...
10) The power of one
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.
12) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A Chinese immigrant and his son build a flying machine in "an unusual historical novel, unique in its perspective of the Chinese in America and its portrayal of early 20th century San Francisco, including the Earthquake, from an immigrant's viewpoint".--School Library Journal. 1976 Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Books of 1971-1975; 1976 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honor Book; New York Times Outstanding Children's Books 1975; School Library...
13) Hattie Big Sky
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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. Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously...
14) Half Brother
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
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Series
Vietnam volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.
18) Ruby red
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Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war.
20) March: Book One
Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2013-2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...