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(0)Karen Schwabach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A perfect Common Core tie-in, The Hope Chest includes nonfiction backmatter with period photographs, historical notes about the suffrage movement, and a Voting in America timeline. It's also a New York State Curriculum title for fourth grade.
Eleven-year-old Violet has one goal in mind when she runs away from home: to find her sister, Chloe. Violet’s parents said Chloe had turned into the Wrong Sort of Person, but Violet knew better....
Eleven-year-old Violet has one goal in mind when she runs away from home: to find her sister, Chloe. Violet’s parents said Chloe had turned into the Wrong Sort of Person, but Violet knew better....
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
A perfect Common Core tie-in, A Pickpocket's Tale includes nonfiction backmatter with a historical map of New York City in 1730, a glossary of period vocabulary words, and an explanatory note titled "How Much of This Story Is True?"
Molly Abraham is a kinchin mort: a ten-year-old thief trying not to starve on the London streets. But everything changes for Molly when she is sentenced to be transported to the American colonies. She becomes...
Molly Abraham is a kinchin mort: a ten-year-old thief trying not to starve on the London streets. But everything changes for Molly when she is sentenced to be transported to the American colonies. She becomes...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment with another historical novel about women's suffrage from the author of The Hope Chest!
Bridie's life has been a series of wrongs. The potato famine in Ireland. Being sent to the poorhouse when her mother's new job in America didn't turn out the way they'd hoped. Becoming an orphan.
And then there's the latest wrong—having to work for a family so abusive that Bridie is afraid...
Bridie's life has been a series of wrongs. The potato famine in Ireland. Being sent to the poorhouse when her mother's new job in America didn't turn out the way they'd hoped. Becoming an orphan.
And then there's the latest wrong—having to work for a family so abusive that Bridie is afraid...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jeremy, a drummer boy, and Dulcie, a runaway slave who hopes to become "contraband" of the 107th New York Volunteer Regiment, become friends and form an unlikely alliance with Charlie, young Confederate soldier, and each helps the others learn truths about the Civil War, slavery, and freedom.