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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
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[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as a maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Born the runt of his litter and gambled away to a rusty old riverman, the Newfoundland pup Seaman doesn't imagine his life will be marked by any kind of glory--beyond chasing down rats. But when he meets Captain Meriwether Lewis, Seaman finds himself on a path that will make history. Lewis is just setting off on his landmark search for the Northwest Passage, and he takes Seaman along. Sharing the curiosity and strength of spirit of his new master,...
10) The staircase
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
11) Come Juneteenth
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[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
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