Terry Bregy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Four-year-old John Butler is captured by the Delaware Indians and is adopted by one of the tribes leaders. Suddenly, after 11 years among the Delaware people, he is forced to return to his original home and parents by the Bouquet military expedition of 1765. But his deep love for and loyalty to his Indian parents and his cousin, Half Arrow, is his reason for rejecting the white man's civilization.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Travel back in time to the fateful maiden voyage of the majestic Titanic in this compelling narrative. Told through the eyes of two young survivors, seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer and twenty-two-year-old Harold Bride, this thrilling account vividly recreates the night the world's most famous passenger ship sank to the bottom of the icy Atlantic.
Author
Description
The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. Set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio, not to be confused with the actual Winesburg, which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.