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1) Ashes
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
318 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1932 Berlin, Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous and the family's friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents bury his books and papers in their small yard.
2) The escape
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[42] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
4) Home at last
Author
Series
Sofias immigrant diary volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
108 p.: ill.;
Language
English
Description
In 1903, ten-year-old Sofia and her family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen. Includes historical notes.
5) Star rise
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As the filly Estrella leads her herd north to good grass and water, the stallion Hold On, blinded in the canyon fire, is found by the human boy Tijo, who has an ability to understand horses that sets him apart from other humans--but when Hold On and Tijo catch up with the herd, Estrella must decide whether or not the horses should accept this boy or drive him away.
Author
Series
Sofias immigrant diary volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
107 p.: 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1903, Maureen, originally from Ireland, comes to Bostom to live with her old friend Sofia and her Italian American family, where the two girls share fifth grade class and various adventures.
8) Wild blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The filly Estrella, her human friend, Tio, and her small herd of horses have temporarily escaped from the evil human El Miedo, but he has not given up, and as the dawn horses keep searching for the sweet grasses that will give them strength, new friends--and enemies--both human and animal, will emerge from the shadows.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
156 p.: 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
237 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
12) A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple : Mayflower/Plimoth Colony, 1620
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
173 p.: 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
184 p.
Language
English
Description
Dear America series. Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes historical notes on Jahanara's later life and on the Mogul Empire.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
217 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker who, though born in poverty, pioneered in hair and beauty care products for black women, and became a great financial success.
18) The portal
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, Rose goes to live with a grandmother she doesn't know. She finds solace in her grandmother's greenhouse, but when she investigates a strange glowing light, she finds herself transported 100 years into the past.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The royal diaries series. Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.
20) Hope in my heart
Author
Series
Sofia's immigrant diary volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
106 p.: ill.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.