Great episodes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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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.
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A ride into morning: the story of Tempe Wick
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Earthquake at dawn
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The primrose way
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Song of the buffalo boy
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Where the broken heart still beats: the story of Cynthia Ann Parker
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
2004, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
An independent-minded young maid tells the story of social-climber Peggy Shippen and how she influenced Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the Patriot forces. Revolutionary Philadelphia is brought to life as Becca seeks to find her "missing pieces" while exploring the complicated issues of the war between the impoverished independence men and the decadent British Tories. "This tale of treachery comes alive under [Rinaldi's] pen."-Kirkus Reviews.
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Indio
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. Meanwhile, her best friend's family is accused of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, and Emily is left unsure of whom she can trust.
Includes a reader's guide.
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Air raid--Pearl Harbor!: the story of December 7, 1941
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Conscripted into the Mexican Army, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bonifacio makes some unexpected alliances and learns some harsh truths about General Santa Ana as the troops move toward the Battle of the Alamo.
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At what price does independence come? Lady Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, and finds herself plunged into the middle of a heated war--a war not only between her former country and her new home, but also between the members of her own family, whose loyalties are strongly divided in America's fight for freedom.
Torn by family responsibilities, the brutality of war, a secret romance,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
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English
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On the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley, but the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln's close friendship with the black seamstress. How did these two women-one who grew up in a wealthy Southern home and became the wife of the president of the United States, the other who was born a slave and eventually...