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(0)Marty Rhodes Figley
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1888, Sarah, her younger sister Annie, and their classmates survive a sudden Nebraska blizzard because of the actions of their schoolteacher. Based on the true story of schoolteacher Minnie Freeman.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Paul Jennings looked out the window of the President's House. America was at war with Britain, and British soldiers were marching toward Washington. Terrified people were fleeing the city. But Paul was not going to join them yet. He was a slave who belonged to President Madison and his wife, Dolley. Dolley did not want to leave until her husband returned from the battlefront. Paul stayed by her side, helping her pack up official papers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
James Forten knew how important freedom was. He was a free African American born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When the American Revolution started in 1776, James was too young to help fight for freedom from British rule. But in 1781, at age fifteen, he took a job on the Royal Louis, an American ship. A British warship soon captured the Royal Louis. James was taken prisoner. The British often sold African American prisoners into slavery. What would...
Author
Publisher
The RoadRunner Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Long before the trend of canine YouTube stars, Missouri had Jim, a Depression Era hunting dog that many believed was either a genius or possessed of clairvoyant skills. Evidence existed for both: Jim predicted seven Kentucky Derby winners and the winners of the 1936 World Series and presidential race, but could also take direction in foreign languages ... shorthand, and Morse Code ... This is the true story of the dog that became known as Missouri's...
Author
Publisher
Lerner
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"William Penn was only twenty-two years old the first time he went to prison. He had attended a meeting of the Quakers, people who practiced a religion forbidden in Britain during the 1600s. Despite the dangers, Penn became a Quaker leader, and he dreamed of a place where people could freely practice religion. Britain's king later gave Penn one of the British colonies in North America. In Pennsylvannia, Penn organized a new kind of governmenta place...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1811, nine-year-old Marie is sad to learn that her family will be moving from New Madrid to St. Louis, Missouri, but when terrible earthquakes destroy her town, everything changes. Includes facts about those earthquakes and their effects.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1781, 15-year-old James Forten, a free African American from Philadelphia, is proud to be fighting for the American colonies, but when the British capture the ship on which he serves he fears for both his life and his freedom. In comic book format.
10) Mary and Martha
Author
Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the story of two very different sisters and what they learned when Jesus visited their house.
11) Noah's wife
Author
Publisher
EerdmansBooks for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Biblical flood story focusing on Noah's wife and how preparations for the flood disrupted her life, but how she accepted these disruptions in trust and faith.