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23) Captain Grey
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Following the Revolution, an eleven-year-old boy becomes the captive of a ruthless man who has set up his own "nation," supported by piracy, on a remote part of the New Jersey coast.
26) Poppy and Rye
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to support his family. He finds work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
33) The barn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Explores the vital ties between fathers and sons, sharing tales of a boy who seeks to understand the wishes of his father's ghost and a boy who makes surprising discoveries while camping with the eccentric grandfather he just met.
36) Ereth's birthday
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Ereth, the prickly old porcupine, is having a dreadful birthday. Not even his beloved friend, the deer mouse Poppy, remembers the occasion. Jellied walrus warts! If he wants a birthday present he'll have to get it for himself. Traveling deep into Dimwood Forest in pursuit of salt, Ereth comes upon a dying mother fox, who begs him to take care of her three children. Agreeing, Ereth becomes foster father to three boisterous young fox kits. With Marty,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
39) Silent movie
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie, in a picture book that evokes an actual silent movie.
40) Windcatcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.