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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman-controlled cities of Istambul, Damascus, Palmyra, and Aleppo, soon finds the journey increasingly hazardous as she begins to uncover her father's true mission and the secret motivations of the other travelers in their group.
10) After the train
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.
11) The disappeared
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Silvia tries to save her brother, Eduardo, after he is captured by the military government in 1970s Argentina.
12) Burying the sun
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.
Author
Publisher
Published by Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In Depression-era northern Michigan, a young boy meets a teenager serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to employ millions of young men during the Great Depression"--
14) The turning
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although it will mean that their father can no longer make a living running a ferry boat, thirteen-year-old Mark and his brother Luke are excited about the building of a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan in 1957.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, when Queen Victoria is unable to go swimming without her subjects glimpsing her in a swimming suit, her husband, Prince Albert, comes up with an innovative solution so his wife can indulge in the healthy exercise. Includes author's note, photo of the bathingmachine and a brief biography of Queen Victoria.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Introduces children to the culture, history, traditions, beliefs, and practices of Japan and its people, with topic poems and expository text covering one item for each letter of the alphabet.