Great episodes
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by an Indian raid while traveling West with a wagon train, fifteen-year-old Carrie Hill is befriended by the English trapper Beaver Dick and taken to live with his Indian wife Jenny and their six children
Author
Series
Publisher
Gulliver Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A recent arrival to the New World in 1633, sixteen-year-old Rebekah, a missionary's daughter, befriends a Native American woman and begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all.
6)
Song of the buffalo boy
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty- four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1778 fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as personal maid to Peggy Shippen, the daughter of wealthy Philadelphia Quakers, and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the revolutionary American forces.
10)
Indio
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fanny McCoy has lived in fear and anger ever since that day in 1878 when a dispute with the Hatfields over the ownership of a few pigs set her family on a path of hatred and revenge. From that day forward, along the ragged ridges of the West Virginia-Kentucky line, the Hatfields and the McCoys have operated not withing the law but within mountain codes of their own making. In 1882, when Fanny's sister Roseanna runs off with young Johnse Hatfield,...
16)
In the shadow of the Alamo
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.
18) Or give me death
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.