Sid Fleischman
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A biography of author Mark Twain. Describes growing up on the Mississippi River and becoming a steamboat pilot. Discusses how he moved West during the Gold Rush and, finding no gold, became a journalist and then an author.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After leaving their rocky Connecticut farm to seek their fortunes in the West, Josh McBroom, his wife Melissa, and their eleven redheaded children stop in Iowa where they become owners of a small but very unusual piece of property.
Author
Series
California Gold Rush novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Bad luck follows orphaned Annyrose Smith like an afternoon shadow. Her brother is lost to her -- gone to strike it rich in the California gold rush -- and now she's been snatched by a famed Mexican bandit who thinks she's a boy and decides she might be useful in his own quest. Joaquin has a price on his head and a reputation for revenge, it's true, but he's as deeply loyal to his family as Annyrose is to hers. Can this unlikely duo help each other...
Author
Series
California Gold Rush novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
When Jack's aunt is forced to sell her beloved mansion but is still unable to raise enough money to pay her debts, the twelve-year-old goes to California in search of gold to help her. Joined by his trusty butler, Praiseworthy, Jack finds adventure and trouble at every turn. Will Jack strike gold in San Francisco or come home empty-handed?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926. Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, the story of the famous magician, Harry Houdini, comes to life through a review of his greatest tricks and most amazing feats, complete with index, photos, and author's notes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Includes author's note which details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.
14) Jim Ugly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.
Author
Series
California Gold Rush novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico. A swashbuckling pirate ship cuts through the early morning fog. Crouching like a tiger about to spring, her figurehead is a huge and ferocious rat with crooked teeth and gouged-out eyes. When the daring Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego, twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to...
16) Bo & Mzzz Mad
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When his father dies, Bo Gamage warily moves to the Mojave Desert home of his distant and estranged relatives, the Martinkas, and finds that "Mad" lives up to her name, PawPaw despises him, and Aunt Juna hopes he'll help search for the gold mine that started a family feud.
20) McBroom's ghost
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The McBroom family is plagued by a mysterious ghost that visits their amazing one-acre farm after every prolonged freezing spell.