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1) The Red Pony
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jody is given a red pony by his father and grows to manhood under the joys and hardships of ranch life.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1996, c1952
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
321 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Betsy sails for Europe to try to forget Joe Willard and to gather material which will aid her in becoming an author.
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2003, c2000
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced out of her home by her stepfather after her mother's death, Meg Finn becomes a wanderer, until an attempted robbery goes wrong, leaving Meg's spirit in limbo, where she becomes involved in a battle between good and evil.
5) Wolf Tower
Author
Series
Claidi journals volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
7) Just one day
Author
Series
Just One Day volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and the search for true love."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1980, c1946
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
x, 272 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Betsy, a high-school sophomore, sets out to fashion a new personality for herself when a handsome new boy joins Betsy and Tacy's crowd in school.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
11) Aquamarine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.
13) Goose chase
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
214 p. : 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
14) Ashes of roses
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer with whom she knows she will one day have to deal. "I don't want to fall in love. I just want to be a warrior maiden." Still disguised as a boy, Alanna becomes a squire to none other than the prince of the realm. Prince Jonathan is not only Alanna's liege lord, he is also her best friend -- and one of...
16) Bull Run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.