Norma Jean Lutz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Time Period: 1862 Daria Fisk's father is a doctor who's serving with the Union Army. When her financially-strapped mother must open their home to boarders, a wounded soldier comes to stay. Daria's twin brother, David, is thrilled by the man's stories of war, but Daria has her suspicions. Daria Solves a Mystery uses actual historical events to tell the exciting fictional story of an eleven-year-old girl caught up in the confusion and drama
...Author
Series
American adventure volume 15
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century Cincinnati, ten-year-old Lucy Lankford eagerly awaits the arrival of her new piano and, along with her recently orphaned cousin Ben Allerton, tries to find out why the school bully is so attached to a worn remnant of flowered fabric.
Author
Series
American adventure volume 16
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Cincinnati, fourteen-year-old Tim Allerton finds his anti-slavery views tested when he and his younger sister Pam save the life of a slave baby whose mother has recently been murdered.
Author
Series
The American adventure volume 46
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Cincinnatian Grace Morgan is fed up with the unkempt boy who harrasses her quiet cousin, but she sees things differently when their town is hit by a serious drought and she and her family get a taste of poverty.
16) John Paul Jones
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the well-known naval leader, John Paul Jones, from his birth in Scotland through his participation in the American Revolution to his death in Paris at the age of forty-five.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Offers a biography of the clergyman who played a major role in eighteenth-century American religious life and served as president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.