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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1040L
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. in a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
920L
Description
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1200L
Description
At age six, Ben MacDonald has the ability to communicate with animals better than he can with people. Then one June day in 1870, he wanders away from his family's farm to observe the wild creatures he loves. When he doesn't return home, his family begins a desperate search for him. As the days go by with no sign of Ben, the MacDonalds start to lose hope. How could a small boy survive on the prairie? But Ben is alive. In a story that would seem...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almanzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
14) One came home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
17) Elijah of Buxton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
20) Call it courage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea, which killed his mother when he was a baby, and proves his courage to himself and his people.
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