F. N Monjo

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1) The drinking gourd

Author

Monjo, F. N

Series

I Can Read Level 3
An I can read history book

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, CD + Book, eAudiobook

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The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party — or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?

2) Indian summer

Author

Monjo, F. N

Series

I can read history book

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1968]

Language

English

Description

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A frontier woman struggles to save her cabin and four children from the Indians.

3) The porcelain pagoda

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Viking Press

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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As she sails on her father's ship from New York to China in the early nineteenth century, sixteen-year-old Kitty describes in her journal the places she sees, the events occurring in them, and the romantic conclusion to the trip.

4) Slater's mill

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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A fictional account of a young English immigrant's efforts to build America's first automated spinning mill entirely from his memory of similar factories and machines in England.

5) King George's head was made of lead

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Pub. Date

[1974]

Language

English

6) The drinking gourd: a story of the Underground Railroad

Author

Monjo, F.N

Series

I can read book

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

[1993]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the Underground Railroad.

7) Letters to Horseface: young Mozart's travels in Italy

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Puffin Books

Pub. Date

1991

Language

English

Description

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While journeying through Italy in 1770, fourteen-year-old Mozart relates his experiences in letters to his sister.

8) The one bad thing about father

Author

Monjo, F. N

Series

I can read history book

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1970]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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An easy-to-read fictional account of the adventures of the Roosevelt children while their father was President.

9) The secret of the Sachem's Tree

Author

Monjo, F. N

Series

Break-of-day book

Publisher

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc

Pub. Date

[1972]

Language

English

Description

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The Wadsworth children must abandon their plans for Halloween mischief to help prevent the King's representative from taking away Connecticut Colony's charter.

10) Poor Richard in France

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Pub. Date

[1973]

Language

English

11) Rudi and the distelfink

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Windmill Books

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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A Pennsylvania Dutch farm boy describes the major activities of his family during each month of the year in the early nineteenth century.

12) The Vicksburg veteran

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

[1971]

Language

English

Description

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Twelve-year-old Fred Grant relates what he saw when he accompanied his father, General Grant, on the campaign to capture Vicksburg.

13) Prisoners of the scrambling dragon

Author

Monjo, F. N

Publisher

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Pub. Date

Language

English

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A 13-year-old cabin boy describes his first voyage aboard a Yankee trading vessel, bound for China during the 1820's, carrying furs, silver, ginseng, sandalwood, and opium.