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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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To escape the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, twelve-year-old Annie and her brother emigrate to New York City where they join their older sister as servants, earning money to bring the rest of their family to America, where they discover that both food and hardships abound.
4) Forge
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Seeds of America trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
5) The escape
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Horses of the dawn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Perce village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Perce Indians.
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS..but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Soon after American colonists had won independence from Great Britain, Ona Judge was fighting for her own freedom from one of America's most famous founding fathers, George Washington. George and Martha Washington valued Ona as one of their most skilled and trustworthy slaves, but she would risk everything to achieve complete freedom. Born into slavery at Mount Vernon, Ona seized the opportunity to escape when she was brought to live in the President's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Irving Berlin came to the United States as a refugee from Tsarist Russia, escaping a pogrom that destroyed his village. Growing up on the streets of the lower East Side, the rhythms of jazz and blues inspired his own song-writing career. Starting with his first big hit, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Berlin created the soundtrack for American life with his catchy tunes and irresistible lyrics. With "God Bless America," he sang his thanks to the country...
11) Into the storm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Escaping their impoverished Irish village and boarding a ship to America, Maura and Patrick endure a treacherous journey, wondering what the new world will bring, while helping a young stowaway avoid capture.
12) Chickadee
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Birchbark house volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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In this retelling of an episode from Uncle Tom's Cabin, the slave Eliza Harris resolves to escape with her two-year-old son across the frozen Ohio River to prevent her master from selling the boy. Includes historical notes on Harriet Beecher Stowe, slavery in America, the Fugitive slave laws, and the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie learns a startling secret about her past when she escapes servitude by running away to live in the snowy woods and meets an elderly Wampanoag woman.
15) Ashes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
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Unicorn Rescue Society volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Gorilla Grodd escapes from prison, Wonder Woman leads a team of Justice League members to Gorilla City to recapture the primate; but when they bring him back to Earth, they find that he has another plan in mind--to use his modified control helmet to turn them all into gorillas and take over New York City.
18) Starfish
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Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the early part of the 1900s, Beatrice and Lionel, two Blackfeet Indian children, escape from the Chalk Bluff Indian Boarding School in Montana to find their grandfather, and must elude their pursuers and make a life for themselves in the wilderness.
19) Refugee
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.