Gary L. Blackwood
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
4) Moonshine
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
During the Depression, in the Ozarks of Missouri, thirteen-year-old Thad has adventures selling moonshine and fishing with a rich visitor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.
7) Wild Timothy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Thirteen-year-old Timothy, more interested in reading than in physical activity, reluctantly accompanies his enthusiastic father on a camping trip and, when he accidently becomes lost in the woods, discovers that he is capable of surviving on his own.
8) Curiosity
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1835, when his father's put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, 12-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Provides an account of the news-making contest to be the first to travel from New York to Paris by automobile, a race launched from four countries in 1908,and includes photographs, illustrations, and profiles of competitors.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When seventeen-year-old Harry Fogg undertakes a race against time to win a wager with a member of his famous father's club, he puts to good use the recklessness and fascination with all things mechanical that have caused him trouble in Victorian England.
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Teenagers Scott and Tully find an unused study room in the library which is actually a doorway into an alternate world, where an outcast is pursuing dangerous experiments to increase his control over the emerging technology of his universe.