Elisa Lynn Carbone
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the huge steamship on which they are traveling runs aground off the New Jersey coast in 1882, two boys and their families are among the passengers dramatically rescued by members of the U.S. Life Saving Service. Includes notes about the event on which the story is based.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving station, despite his father's objections.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's 1943, and the White House is busy with the war effort. Diana Hopkins only wants to help, but doesn't know what a ten-year-old can do - until the Roosevelts come up with the idea of Victory Gardens, and Diana suddenly has the important job of Victory Gardener for the White House"--
7) Jump
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Two teenaged runaways meet at a climbing gym and together embark on a dangerous and revealing journey.
8) The pack
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Akhil Vyas, a new boy in school, reluctantly decides that in order to prevent a violent crime, he must tell Omar and Becky his secret.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A collection of seven stories about six children who are in the same class at school, two white boys, a black girl, a Chinese girl, an Indian girl, and a Pakistani boy. They are not friends, but they all come together in one community at the end of the stories. Each story in the collection centers on a different celebration within the faith of that child, and in the appendix at the back of the book, each of the celebrations is explained in more depth,...