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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan; she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her...
2) Little men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Continues the story of Little Women. This story takes place at Plumfield, a school founded by Jo and Father Bhaer for young boys and girls. Meg's and Jo's children are in the story, as are Marmee, Aunt Amy, and Uncle Laurie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Since her mother died when she was born Sara and her father became very close. Sara has to go away to an all girl boarding school in Britian, because her father has to fight in the war. One day a messenger comes and tells her that her father is dead. Since Sara will lose all the money her father has she is forced to be a maid with the other maid who is black named Becky just so she can have a place to live. She finds out that her father is not dead,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classrooom, where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in."--T.p. verso.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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from the preface: "So what better a project than to trace the origins of the blanco Basin Road - a trail I have beat for the last 46 years with all it's flat tires, hit deer, broken windshields, lost pilgrims, snow storm mishaps, mud, other curiosities - and yes - it's many and varied stories and history! Some people may not be interested in the old maps included in this epistle, but they surely will enjoy reading about people who were brought to...
12) Abigail
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Gina, the spoiled daughter of a Hungarian general, rails against being sent to boarding school far from Budapest when war breaks out, but finds help in a statue of Abigail and her new "sisters."
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the acclaimed series-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation's children, and a call to action for a new way forward In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection-both were traumatized by gun violence....
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 4
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.
Author
Publisher
Putnam Books
Pub. Date
2003, ©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school.
20) Eleanor & Park
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--
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