James Lincoln Collier
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Carrie has been a kitchen slave in Sam Fraunces' tavern in New York City for as long as she can remember. But after she narrowly escapes a kidnapper, Carrie becomes more curious about her mysterious past. After all, she doesn't even know her own last name. When her friend Dan Arabus comes to town, he talks about his dream of buying his mother's freedom with the Continental notes his father left him. Deciding to help Dan discover how much the notes...
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 2
Pub. Date
c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.
5) The jazz kid
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Playing the coronet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Eugene starts hearing a voice inside his head telling him to do awful things, it leads him to look into his small town's past before the Depression, and to discover long-hidden secrets about his neighbors and his town.
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 1
Publisher
Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
1987, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City. Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long search for her mother and luckily finds a haven at the famous Fraunces Tavern. But even with the help of Sam Fraunces and her fellow worker, Horace, Willy knows that to be black, female, and free leaves her open...
8) The clock
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a gruelling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.
9) Wild boy
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.
10) The empty mirror
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old George Stable wants to be a rock star someday, but he gets horrible stage fright-unless he has his old teddy bear with him. Hiding the teddy in his guitar seems like a brilliant idea. Then George discovers that someone has hidden stolen jewels in the stuffing of his beloved bear. George's embarrassing "teddy bear habit" becomes the center of a life-and-death chase through Manhattan. Can George survive long enough to make his first...
Author
Publisher
Four Winds Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
At thirteen, George Stable still hasn't made his mark on the world. Oh, he plays the guitar and sings a little. And he appeared on television for six whole seconds once. A couple of years ago, he even wrote a sort of book, called The Teddy Bear Habit. But nothing really exciting has happened to him. But now, it looks as if his big chance has finally come. This agent of his, Woody Woodward, who discovered him during his six-second TV career, has come...
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Examines the events and personalities, particularly President Andrew Jackson, that shaped the development of the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the economic, social, and religious reasons why immigrants, predominantly from northern Europe, and then from eastern and southern Europe, came to the United States. Considers incidents of prejudice experienced by these immigrants as well as contributions made by those of immigrant background.
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the struggles following the Civil War to decide how to deal with the newly freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.
The...
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation....