Jane Yolen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
James, an earl's son and bothersome child, may hold the key to saving Cranford Abbey, a dilapidated school where he is sent to be educated, that newly-appointed Abbot Aelian thinks can be saved if he can make cider from the golden apples now being eaten by ravenous unicorns.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States' centennial.
Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young aspiring detective narrates the known facts of an unsolved historical mystery--the discovery in a forest in India of two girls said to have been raised by wolves--and challenges the reader to come up with a solution.
Author
Series
The Seelie Wars volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Snail, a midwife's apprentice in the Unseelie Court, meets Prince Aspen, a Seelie prince being held as a hostage in order to prevent a war. In thinking that they are stopping the war, they instead trigger one"--
Author
Series
Young Merlin trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Series
Young Merlin trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Series
Young Merlin trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Series
Stuart quartet volume 1
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.