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1) Freewater
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing Southerland Plantation with his little sister, twelve-year-old Homer finds a secret community called Freewater, created by formerly enslaved people, but when he learns of a threat that could destroy this place, he crafts a plan to help his new home.
Author
Series
American girls collection. 1853 volume 3
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
91 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with Cecile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
39 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Addy's new life in Philadelphia in the late 1860s continues to hold surprises, as she competes in a kite festival and her teacher recommends her for the Institute for Colored Youth. Includes informational pages about the Institute for Colored Youth and how to make a kite.
Author
Series
American girl volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Now that the yellow fever epidemic is over, the people of New Orleans raise money to care for the orphans, and Cecile seeks to discover something special she can to do help.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Attic Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a topic for her school assignment, Keisha visits Ellie's attic and discovers the excitement of the music and writing that flourished among African Americans in Harlem during the 1920s.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.
10) Meet Hattie
Author
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
[c1994]
Physical Desc
94p illus
Language
English
Description
Hattie Hart is a young girl growing up on a farm in the 1920s with her Dutch immigrant parents and her brothers and sisters
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
Author
Publisher
Harper Trophy
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Harriet Tubman's daring escape from slavery and her heroic efforts that brought three hundred African Americans to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Author
Series
Cul-de-sac kids volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
65 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their new Korean sisters do not arrive at the airport, Abby and Carly have a mystery to solve, with God's help.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.
"Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day -- yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, "all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
164 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
20) Rage of fire
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2001, c1998
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
143 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack, Ashley, and their parents visit Hawaii where they meet a Vietnamese boy who is going to live with his American grandfather whom he has never met, and are pursued by the goddess Pele.