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Joan Hiatt Harlow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her grandmother on the coast of Maine, where she is introduced to the often gossipy nature of small-town life, and discovers that the war is closer than she thought. The U.S. is at war with Germany. Fourteen-year-old Jill Winter's mother is traveling to Newfoundland and must pass through the treacherous North Atlantic, where German submarines -- U-boats -- stalk like wolves. Jill's father, a famous...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
520L
Formats
Description
Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.
4) Firestorm!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Just when his dreams of being part of a family and having a dog seem to be coming true, Tom wonders if trouble with neighbors on his new island home and the impending birth of a new baby will change everything. Set in Newfoundland in 1929.
