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1) Sky chasers
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The race is on to be the first to discover the secret of flight! Magpie is soon caught up in a world of science, spies, and unruly animals to be the first to passenger in a hot air balloon. Yesterday, Magpie was one of the best thieves in all of France. But an encounter with a boy dangling from the sky will change her life forever. And even though it ends in disaster, Magpie becomes enthralled by the idea of flying over the rooftops of Paris like...
2) Hold fast
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.
4) Flygirl
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Author
Series
The Questioneers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Rosie Revere's Uncle Ned gets carried away wearing his famous helium pants, Ada and her friends must find a way to get him down before he floats too far away.