Diane Stanley
1) Joan of Arc
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
2) Cleopatra
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of Cleopatra, who became queen of Egypt at the age of eighteen and maintained power over her kingdom through her alliances with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.
7) Michelangelo
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.
10) A time apart
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
While her mother undergoes treatment for cancer, thirteen-year-old Ginny is sent to live with her father in England, where she becomes part of an archeological experiment to investigate life during the Iron Age.
11) Woe is Moe
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Moe's new job in advertising at the ice cream factory brings him money, travel, and prestige--so why is he lonely and miserable?
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With stunning and expressive illustrations, Diane Stanley portrays Mozart's turbulent life as a marionette show, inspired by the famous Salzburg Marionette Theatre, using an innovative artistic approach to present the life of a renowned musical genius. In concise and lyrical prose, Stanley presents an honest and sympathetic portrait of the boyhood and tragically short adulthood of a composer whose music has lived on for more than two hundred years....
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Stanley reveals yet another dimension of her talents in her second novel (after A Time Apart), here serving up a witty story that manages to be both light and satisfying. Fifth-grade narrator Franny Sharp, having just entered yet another new school, cements her friendship with the independent Beamer as the two notice how many of the other kids in the cafeteria are playing, riotously and continuously, with Jelly Worm candies. Franny sees the connection...
Author
Series
Time-traveling twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, join a group of pioneers journeying west on the Oregon Trail in 1843.
15) Second sleep
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When Max and his sister Rose go to visit their grandmother's lakeside vacation home, they soon discover that their nightly sleeps bring them to a timelocked place with kids from all different eras, united by their love of the lake--and Max begins to wonder if they can help him to find his missing mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Prince Alexos, the long-awaited champion of the goddess Athene, follows the course of his destiny through war and loss and a deadly confrontation with his enemy to its end: shipwreck on a magical, fog-shrouded island. There he meets the unforgettable Aria and faces the greatest challenge of his life. Based loosely on Shakespeare's The Tempest"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Time-traveling twins volume 2
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With the help of their grandmother's hat, the twins journey back in time to the Boston Tea Party.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"With tensions rising between the kingdoms of Westria and Austlind, Molly and Tobias accompany King Alaric to Cortova, where he hopes to form an alliance with the powerful King Gonzalo--an alliance that would be sealed by Alaric's marriage to Gonzalo's daughter, the beautiful princess Elizabetta"--
