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Pub. Date
s202
Language
English
Description
Courtney is the best gamer at the arcade. But she can't understand why there aren't more girl characters. When Courtney imagines her own video game, the hero is a girl who knows how to handle any situation. If only I were like that in real life, Courtney wishes. Her dad's moving for a job, so Courtney won't be living with him on the weekends anymore. That's causing a big problem with her stepsister, who doesn't like sharing a room with Courtney-or...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
s202
Language
English
Description
Claudie Wells wants more than anything to be a person whose imagination can fly, instead of a person whose feet are stuck on the ground. She believes everyone has a talent except for her. She's growing up in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City during the 1920s, surrounded by writers and poets, painters and sculptors, actors and dancers, singers and musicians. When an eviction notice threatens her family, friends, and the beloved boardinghouse...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Samantha is determined to help nine-year-old Nellie, attending school for the first time, with her school work and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer at Grandmary's summer home on Goose Lake, Samantha and her twin cousins decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
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