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AR BookGuide™ Page 1 of 89 4th Grade Historical Fiction Friday, November 25, 2011 6:04:35 PM Emmaus Lutheran School Sorted by: Title

Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description 90 Miles to Havana Flores-Galbis, 140562 EN MG 4.8 10.0 F 66605 N N - - - Julian's parents, hoping to protect Julian Enrique and his brothers from the dangers of the turmoil in Cuba, send them to the in 1961 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, where the boys learn life in a Miami refugee camp holds its own perils. Abner & Me: A Baseball Card Gutman, Dan 86479 EN MG 4.2 5.0 F 34035 N N - - N With his ability to travel through time Adventure using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the . Comes Home Burleigh, Robert 126769 EN LG 4.7 0.5 F 1169 N N - - - A young boy experiences grief as President Abraham Lincoln's body is transported from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, for burial. Across the Blue Pacific: A World Borden, Louise 105906 EN LG 4.6 0.5 F 2083 N N - - - A woman reminisces about her War II Story neighbor's son, who was the object of a letter-writing campaign by some fourth- graders when he went away to war in 1943. The Actor, the Rebel, and the Deary, Terry 88887 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 3541 N N - - - A young actor at the Globe Theatre Wrinkled Queen must defend his master when Queen Elizabeth suspects that Shakespeare tried to help the Earl of Essex overthrow her. The Adventurous Deeds of Hemphill, Helen 123996 EN MG 4.2 7.0 F 50413 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones Deadwood Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes to find his father. The plot contains mild profanity and sexual innuendoes.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description After the Rain: Virginia's Civil War Osborne, Mary Pope 59348 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 11808 N N - - N In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes Diary about her family's experiences living in Washington, D.C., in 1864, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Agnes May Gleason Duey, Kathleen 25298 EN MG 4.9 4.0 F 27010 N N - - - In 1933, when her father's foot injury makes it impossible for him to do farm work for a while, thirteen-year-old Agnes steps in, proving herself and revealing her understanding of him. Alexia Ellery Finsdale Duey, Kathleen 17603 EN MG 4.9 4.0 F 28388 N N - - N In San Francisco near the beginning of the twentieth century, Alexia faces a moral dilemma when her con-man father tries to cheat the widow who has been like a mother to Alexia. All the World's a Stage: A Novel in Woelfle, Gretchen 143506 EN MG 4.5 5.0 F 33258 N N - - - Twelve-year-old orphan Kit Buckles Five Acts becomes a stage boy in a London theater in 1598, tries his hand at acting, and later helps build the Globe Theatre for playwright William Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The plot contains violence. Amanda's Story Tamar, Erika 83603 EN MG 4.0 5.0 F 35060 N N - - - While living in Cape Light during the years 1905 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow. Book #4. Angelique: Angel in the Snow Taylor, Cora 109032 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 15665 N N - - - Angelique and Joseph have a new baby sister, but Maman and the baby must stay with the midwife until the raging blizzards subside. Winter, has come with a vengeance to the little settlement of Batoche, means snow and fun but can also mean danger. Book #4

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Angelique: Buffalo Hunt Taylor, Cora 63920 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 11649 N N - - - Angelique Dumas is a ten-year-old Métis girl, and this year she gets to be part of the hunt, not with the children, but with the grown-ups. It will be hard work, she knows, and she will have lots of new and important responsibilities. Book #1 Aniela Kaminski's Story: A Voyage Pastore, Clare 81990 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 38529 N N - - - Aniela and Papa leave Poland during from Poland During World War II the German occupation and arrive in America ready to reach for their dreams. Anna Sunday Keehn, Sally M. 60003 EN MG 4.6 9.0 F 58830 N N - - - In 1863, twelve-year-old Anna, disguised as a boy and accompanied by her brother Jed, leaves their home and makes the journey to join their wounded father in Winchester, Virginia, where they find themselves in danger from Confederate troops. Anna's Blizzard Hart, Alison 102986 EN MG 4.0 4.0 F 27153 N N - - - Having never excelled at schoolwork, twelve-year-old Anna discovers that she may know a few things about survival when the 1888 Children's Blizzard traps her and her classmates in their Nebraska schoolhouse. Anna's Fight for Hope: The Great Grote, JoAnn A. 85146 EN MG 4.1 5.0 F 34127 N N - - - For Anna, the Great Depression was not Depression only a national catastrophe, but a personal one as well. This time of upheaval affected her friends and acquaintances who were all devastated by economic events. Anne Hutchinson's Way Atkins, Jeannine 116266 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 1776 N N - - - In 1634, Anne began to hold her own Scripture meetings at which she contradicted the minister's teaching that God is stern and punitive and was told to stop. Although threatened with banishment, she refused to be silenced, no matter the consequences.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Annie's War Sullivan, Jacqueline 117255 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 35957 N N - - - In 1946, imaginary conversations with Levering President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her MIA father. The Assassins of Rome Lawrence, Caroline 77251 EN MG 4.6 6.0 F 40681 N N - - - Jonathan is followed by Flavia and Nubia when he goes to Rome and into the Golden House built by the emperor Nero, where a dangerous assassin lurks. Book #4 At Ellis Island: A History in Many Peacock, Louise 118919 EN LG 4.0 1.0 F 5041 N N - - - The experiences of people coming to Voices the United States are conveyed by a contemporary young girl visiting Ellis Island and of a girl who immigrated in about 1910, as well as by quotes from early twentieth-century immigrants and Ellis Island officials. Away to the Goldfields! Derby, Pat 84345 EN MG 4.5 9.0 F 60074 N N - - - Yearning for adventure and tired of farm life in , sixteen-year-old Mary Margaret Malarkey journeys to California in 1848 to find her father who arrived earlier to make his fortune in the goldfields. Bad River Boys: A Meeting of the Sneve, Virginia 89938 EN LG 4.6 0.5 F 2849 N N - - - This story chronicles the story of three Lakota Sioux with Lewis and Clark Driving Hawk young Lakota boys, and the wariness and misunderstanding each side met and the crises that ensued them. Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee Beatty, Patricia 78028 EN MG 4.6 7.0 F 50484 N N - - - The war is over, but the struggle continues for Hannalee and her family. Hannalee must put herself on the line to protect her brother when he is arrested for a crime he did not commit.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Bell's Breakthrough Deutsch, Stacia 101495 EN LG 4.0 2.0 F 14615 N N - - - Abigail & her friends time travel and find that Professor Bell has given up on the telephone. The kids have to get him back on track, but can they make the connection with the most stubborn inventor they ever met? The coauthor is Rhody Cohon. Book #3 Ben Franklin's Fame Deutsch, Stacia 110350 EN LG 4.4 2.0 F 16593 N N - - - Abigail and her friends can't believe it, Babs has convinced Ben Franklin to quit! Babs is making a mess of history, and it's up to the third-grade time- travelers to put things right. The coauthor is Rhody Cohon. Book #6 Bengalmin Franklin Toffoli, Andrew 117082 EN LG 4.1 0.5 F 493 N N - - - Based on the life of the great inventor Benjamin Franklin, this is a rhyming text story about Bengalmin Franklin as he discovers and creates new inventions. Bessie Smith and the Night Riders Stauffacher, Sue 107018 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 954 N N - - - Black blues singer Bessie Smith single- handedly scares off members who are trying to disrupt her show one hot July night in Concord, North Carolina. The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had Levine, Kristin 128009 EN MG 4.2 9.0 F 59920 N N - - - In 1917 Alabama, twelve-year-old Dit Sims and his new friend, Emma, work together to come up with a plan that could save the town barber, a black man who is accused of a terrible crime. The plot contains the theme and language of racism. Betsy Ross's Star Deutsch, Stacia 116160 EN LG 4.6 3.0 F 17749 N N - - - Abigail, Jacob, Zack, and Bo travel back in time to meet Betsy Ross and stop Babs Magee from taking credit for sewing the first American flag. The coauthor is Rhody Cohon. Book #8

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Betsy's River Adventure: The Jones, Veda Boyd 85147 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 33145 N N - - - Betsy Miller is shocked when her Journey Westward parents decide to move from their home in Boston to the rugged frontier city of Cincinnati. They will face a dangerous, weeks-long journey by boat down the Ohio River. Bicycle Madness Kurtz, Jane 73515 EN MG 4.8 3.0 F 18835 N N - - - In the late nineteenth century, Lillie gains friendship and help with a spelling bee from a neighbor, Frances Willard, who braves criticism to speak about women's rights and learn to ride a bicycle. Bird in a Box Pinkney, Andrea 143646 EN MG 4.2 6.0 F 40861 N N - - - In 1936, three children meet at Mercy Davis Home for Negro Orphans in New York, and while not all are orphans, they are all dealing with grief, which together, along with the help of staff member and the boxing matches of Joe Louis, they manage to overcome. Black Duck Lisle, Janet Taylor 106281 EN MG 4.8 8.0 F 54851 N N - - N Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum- smuggling trade. Blackbeard's Sword: O'Donnell, Liam 112356 EN MG 4.0 0.5 F 2842 N N - - - Edward Teach, known far and wide as King of the Carolinas Blackbeard, holds the coast of North and South Carolina in a grip of terror, and Lieutenant Maynard and his men decide to capture the pirate. Blood and Iron: Building the Yee, Paul 140028 EN MG 4.8 7.0 F 45904 N N - - - To solve their family's money troubles, Railway Heen and his father go to Canada to help build the railway, a decision plagued by disaster. Heen's only solace is his journal and his chilling observations of the injustice and peril heaped upon the workers.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Book Without Words: A Fable Avi 88384 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 37164 N N - - N THE BOOK WITHOUT WORDS of Medieval Magic appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages, but for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. The Boy Who Saved Cleveland: Giblin, James Cross 105495 EN LG 4.6 1.0 F 8683 N N - - N During a malaria epidemic in late Based on a True Story eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten- year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone. Brave Emily Tripp, Valerie 114306 EN MG 4.9 2.0 F 11812 N N - - - Molly gets a lesson in what true friendship is when Emily, a young English girl, comes to stay with Molly's family during the bombing of London. Bread and Roses, Too Paterson, Katherine 110098 EN MG 4.9 9.0 F 60875 N N - - N Jake and Rosa form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Breaking Stalin's Nose Yelchin, Eugene 146486 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 15128 N N - - - In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs. A Bride for Anna's Papa Marvin, Isabel R. 88852 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 31943 N N - - - In 1907, thirteen-year-old Anna tries to find a bride for her father, who works in the iron mines of northern Minnesota. Brooklyn Bridge Hesse, Karen 124429 EN MG 4.2 6.0 F 42192 N N - - - In 1903 Brooklyn, 14-year-old Joseph's life changes when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their home into a factory, while nearby Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Williams, Mary 87506 EN MG 4.7 1.0 F 3540 N N - - N Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a Lost Boys of Sudan civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek thousands of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, then Kenya, and finally in the United States. The Brothers' War Hermes, Patricia 87370 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 36573 N N - - - Cousins Melody and Marshall's family is torn apart when Marshall's father enlists in the Confederate Army and Melody's father backs the Union. Marshall spies for his father, while Melody helps her dad. Will family loyalty override the allegiance of war? The Buffalo Soldier Garland, Sherry 109149 EN LG 4.8 0.5 F 1369 N N - - - A young man raised as a slave becomes a buffalo soldier, a member of an all-black cavalry regiment formed to protect white settlers from Indians, bandits, and outlaws, and that later fought in the Spanish American War. The Buffalo Storm Applegate, Katherine 135558 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 1221 N N - - - When Hallie and her parents join a wagon train to Oregon and leave her grandmother behind, Hallie must learn to face the storms that frighten her as well as other new fears with just her grandmother's quilt to comfort her. A Bundle of Trouble: A Rebecca Reiss, Kathryn 142990 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 25956 N N - - - After Rebecca meets a new family in her Mystery apartment building and helps watch their fussy baby while they are moving in, she becomes convinced that they have been victimized by the kidnappers who have been operating in their neighborhood. By the Sword: A Young Man Meets Castrovilla, Selene 113336 EN MG 4.8 0.5 F 2537 N N - - - The author has woven Benjamin War Tallmadge's own account with additional details from primary-source documents and research to deliver this narrative of one of American History's most harrowing moments.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Cabin on Trouble Creek Van Leeuwen, Jean 78020 EN MG 4.5 6.0 F 44700 N N - - N Two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch the rest of the family. Calling the Griffin Panagopoulos, Janie 81730 EN MG 4.6 3.0 F 21912 N N - - - While on vacation with their parents, Lynn Allie and Shoo Spywell witness one of the most shocking mysteries of the Great Lakes and together the brother and sister team set out to discover the truth behind it. Camp 30 Walters, Eric 86742 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 43543 N N - - - Jack and George have barely recovered from their ordeal at Camp X when their lives are disrupted once again. Informed that they may still be in danger, they are relocated to Bowmanville where their mother takes a clerking job in a prisoner -of-war camp. Candlelight for Rebecca Greene, Jacqueline 132087 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 12119 N N - - - In 1914, Rebecca, a Russian Jewish Dembar immigrant, does not know what to do when her teacher assigns the class to make Christmas decorations, which she is sure will upset her family, but she gets some good advice in an unexpected place. Book #3 Cannons at Dawn: The Second Gregory, Kristiana 143877 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 36648 N N - - - From the winter of 1779 until 1781, Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart Abigail Stewart and her family follow the path of her father's Continental Army unit after their Valley Forge home burns down, enduring harsh winters and scarce food and narrowly escaping danger time and again. Captured off Guard: The Attack on Lemke, Donald 119921 EN MG 4.3 1.0 F 3948 N N - - - While camping out on the island of Pearl Harbor Oahu, Hawaii, Hank and his best friend, James, hear loud explosions. Suddenly, Japanese planes fill the sky, attacking Pearl Harbor. James wants to hide, but Hank wants to capture the battle on his camera.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Carrie's Courage: Battling the Lutz, Norma Jean 102494 EN MG 4.5 5.0 F 34567 N N - - - Carrie tries to protect her Jewish friend Powers of Bigotry from intolerant people. Casa Azul: An Encounter with Hill, Laban Carrick 88198 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 33907 N N - - - In 1940, after traveling from their Frida Kahlo country village to Mexico City to find their mother, fourteen-year-old Maria and her younger brother Victor are befriended by the artist Frida Kahlo and the talking animals and household objects that inhabit her home. A Castle at the Straits Panagopoulos, Janie 78964 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 2152 N N - - - At Michigan's Straits of Mackinac, eight- Lynn year-old Chester quickly learns the importance of the "Castle at the Straits" and the work he will help his uncles, the "wicki," or lighthouse keeper, and his assistant, do there. The Cats in Krasinski Square Hesse, Karen 82987 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 627 N N - - - Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall. Chance of a Lifetime Kent, Deborah 102421 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 29428 N N - - - Away from home during the battle of Vicksburg, fourteen-year-old Jacquetta returns to find her parents gone and the plantation in Yankee hands, but with help from a slave girl, she devises a plan to rescue the family's Morgan horses. Changes for Rebecca Greene, Jacqueline 132088 EN MG 4.9 2.0 F 12564 N N - - - Rebecca Rubin, a Russian Jewish Dembar immigrant in early twentieth-century New York, is appalled to see the horrible conditions at the factory where her friend Ana's brother and father work, and she is determined to do something to fix the problem. Book #6

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Chantrea Conway's Story: A Pastore, Clare 83371 EN MG 4.3 6.0 F 41708 N N - - - Fleeing their home in Cambodia, Voyage from Cambodia in 1975 thirteen-year-old Chantrea Conway and her grandparents experience loss, starvation, and deceit in their search for safety and news of Chantrea's missing American father. Charlotte in Giverny Knight, Joan 114294 EN LG 4.6 1.0 F 6768 N N - - - While living in Giverny, France, in 1892, MacPhail Charlotte, a young American girl, writes a journal of her experiences among the artists there. Charlotte in New York Knight, Joan 112333 EN LG 4.7 1.0 F 6137 N N - - - In 1894, Charlotte records in a journal MacPhail her impressions of a family trip from Giverny, France, to New York, where her father's paintings will be featured in an exhibition. Charlotte in Paris Knight, Joan 87602 EN LG 4.8 1.0 F 5580 N N - - - The young daughter of American artists MacPhail living in Giverny, France, in 1893, records in her journal her exciting trip to Paris to attend an Impressionist art exhibition. Biographical sketches of the artists featured in the story are included. Charlotte's Choice Twomey, Cathleen 54160 EN MG 4.7 7.0 F 48487 N N - - N A young woman, burdened by a terrible secret, must decide to reveal the secret and betray her best friend or to keep the secret and send her friend to prison. Charlotte's Rose Cannon, A.E. 65235 EN MG 4.1 6.0 F 45716 N N - - - As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her. Chase Haas, Jessie 113949 EN MG 4.5 7.0 F 46855 N N - - - In the coal mining region of mid- nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Chasing the Nightbird Russell, Krista 145942 EN MG 4.6 7.0 F 45851 N N - - - In 1851 New Bedford, Maryland, fourteen-year-old sailor Lucky Valera is kidnapped by his estranged half-brother and forced to work in a mill, but while Lucky is plotting his escape, he meets a former slave and a young Quaker girl who influence his plans. Circle of Fire Coleman, Evelyn 52588 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 31459 N N - - - In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt. Circle Unbroken: The Story of a Raven, Margot Theis 77831 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 1232 N N - - N As she teaches her granddaughter to Basket and Its People sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, a grandmother weaves a story, going back generations. A Club in Montmartre: An Resnick, Mike 114909 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 35987 N N - - - After a beggar girl rescues the drunken, Encounter with Henri de Toulouse- severely deformed French painter, Henri Lautrec de Toulouse-Lautrec, he introduces her to his studio, the nightlife of Montmartre, and the can-can dancers at the Moulin Rouge club. Clue in the Castle Tower: A Buckey, Sarah M. 142992 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 26839 N N - - - While visiting an old castle in England, Samantha Mystery Samantha and Nellie solve mysteries involving a ghost and some missing rare books. Clues in the Shadows: A Molly Ernst, Kathleen 129076 EN MG 4.3 4.0 F 27172 N N - - - As the war continues into May 1945, Mystery eleven-year-old Molly finds herself pulled in many different directions trying to cope with her troubled father' return from war, the abrupt resignation of her favorite Red Cross volunteer, and a neighborhood prowler. Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie McKissack, Patricia 35834 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 36399 N N - - N Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records Lee Love C. in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Comanche Song Shefelman, Janice 54633 EN MG 4.7 8.0 F 51579 N N - - - A young Comanche boy experiences his tribe's conflicts with the Tejanos in 1840s Texas. Come Rinaldi, Ann 114830 EN MG 4.3 7.0 F 52243 N N - - N Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation set them free. The Copper Treasure Burgess, Melvin 54261 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 14806 N N - - - In mid-nineteenth-century London, three young boys try to retrieve a valuable roll of copper from the bottom of the Thames River. Countdown Wiles, Deborah 137204 EN MG 4.4 9.0 F 59266 N N - - - As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. Crazy Horse's Vision Bruchac, Joseph 41519 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 1343 N N - - - This is a story based on the life of the dedicated young Lakota boy, who grew up to be one of the bravest defenders of his people. He later became known as Crazy Horse. Cross My Heart Shipley, Jocelyn 82181 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 38814 N N - - - In this collection of short stories, Jill Summerfield chronicles her coming of age and her struggles to understand her emerging sexuality during the turbulent sixties. Crossing to Freedom Schwartz, Virginia 140038 EN MG 4.3 9.0 F 63206 N N - - - As fugitive slaves on a dangerous Frances journey north to Canada, eleven-year- old Solomon and his grandfather avoid the slavecatchers, but when Grandpa Jacob is injured and cannot make the border crossing, Solomon wonders if he will find his way without him.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Crossroads at Gettysburg Kay, Alan N. 103316 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 38148 N N - - - While Thomas and George seem destined to represent their opposing sides at the Battle of Gettysburg, Mary's recovery may be the only thing that can stop her brother and cousin from killing each other. Book #6 Crosswire Enderle, Dotti 143732 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 32341 N N - - - In 1883, when a drought drives free- range cattlemen to shred Texas ranchers' barbed wire fences and steal water, thirteen-year-old Jesse works hard to help while dealing with his father and brother's falling-out and his own fear of guns. The Cry of the Loon: A Samantha Steiner, Barbara 129071 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 28209 N N - - - In June 1907, twelve-year-old Samantha Mystery looks forward to a happy summer with Nellie and her sisters at Grandmary's home in the Adirondacks, but a series of accidents on the property lead Samantha to suspect that someone is deliberately causing trouble. Cuda of the Celts Ashe, Susan 103198 EN LG 4.5 1.0 F 3620 N N - - - Cuda, a Celtic girl whose tribe is battling the Romans, helps a wounded Roman boy she finds hiding in the woods, and later he repays her kindness. Dadblamed Cow Fletcher, Susan 119339 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 762 N N - - - Based on a true story, during the Civil War, a devoted cow follows her owner when he joins the Union Army and, despite all his efforts to send her home, stays with him and his regiment until the end of the war. Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn Lurie, April 65236 EN MG 4.2 6.0 F 44235 N N - - - In 1944, a thirteen-year-old girl grapples with the discovery that "Pa" isn't her biological father, experiences her first romance, and faces hardships dealt to friends in Brooklyn's Norwegian community.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Danger at the Wild West Show Hart, Alison 68932 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 34904 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886. Danger at the Zoo: A Kit Mystery Ernst, Kathleen 88624 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 27548 N N - - - While working as a reporter during her summer vacation in 1935, Kit uncovers a mystery involving suspected break-ins at the monkey house at the Cincinnati Zoo. Danger: Dynamite! Capeci, Anne 71751 EN MG 4.0 3.0 F 23543 N N - - - Ten-year-old Billy, his friend Finn, and a girl named Dannie, living in a 1920s camp of railroad workers in the Cascade Mountains, follow clues to try to uncover the relationship of a stolen crate of dynamite with gold taken during an 1893 train robbery. Daniel's Story Kirby, Susan E. 60708 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 38964 N N - - - Great-grandmother Tandy tells Lacey about a quilt given to their ancestor, Daniel, who, upset by the changes after his grandfather's death, leaves Illinois for South Dakota in 1891 to find his father, and he learns about the Sioux Ghost Dance firsthand. Daughter of Madrugada Wood, Frances M. 61269 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 34511 N N - - - In the California of the 1840s, thirteen- year-old Cesa has a wonderful life, although the world beyond is changing. Mexico has lost the 1846 war with the United States and Upper California now belongs to foreigners, the Americans. Daughter of Venice Napoli, Donna Jo 58678 EN MG 4.9 10.0 F 69503 N N - - - Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen- year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Dear Mr. Rosenwald Weatherford, Carole 110401 EN LG 4.2 0.5 F 1614 N N - - - Young Ovella rejoices as her community Boston comes together to raise money and build a much-needed school in the 1920s, with support from Professor James of the Normal School and matching funds from the president of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Devil Storm Nelson, Theresa 70562 EN MG 4.9 7.0 F 49357 N N - - - In this suspenseful story the lives of the Carroll family, watermelon farmers in Bolivar, Texas, in 1900, and an old tramp named Tom become intertwined with the Galveston Flood and the legend of Jean Lafitte. The Devil's Door: A Salem Thompson, Paul B. 139168 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 34780 N N - - - Sarah Wright and her father, Ephraim, Witchcraft Story move to Salem Village, Massachusetts, in 1692, where they witness the Salem witchcraft hysteria during which Ephraim is arrested and Sarah must try to help him escape from jail. Diego de Granada Palacios, Argentina 65931 EN MG 4.9 4.0 F 24244 N N - - - When ten-year-old Diego's mother dies, he is sent to an orphanage. Here he learns to read and write, opportunities few poor children have in early sixteenth -century Spain. A lie forces Diego to flee the orphanage and he struggles to survive. A Doctor Like Papa Kinsey-Warnock, 59497 EN MG 4.2 1.0 F 8774 N N - - N When the influenza epidemic of 1918 Natalie comes to Vermont, eleven-year-old Margaret, who has always wanted to be a physician, finds out what doctoring is like. The Dog Who Thought He Was Wallace, Bill 117631 EN MG 4.2 5.0 F 32369 N N - - - In 1957, problems at the mine threaten Santa to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his sister.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Dollhouse Magic McDonough, Yona 66068 EN LG 4.8 2.0 F 10829 N N - - - During the Depression, sisters Lila and Zeldis Jane, intrigued by the beautiful dollhouse they see in a house window, befriend its elderly owner and ultimately have a very different Christmas. The Dolphins of Laurentum Lawrence, Caroline 77252 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 40006 N N - - - Flavia Gemina and her friends are led to a seaside villa where possible danger and treasure are close at hand. Book #5 Dracula Kelly, Jack 85726 EN MG 4.2 3.0 F 24199 N N - - - In this retelling of the Bram Stoker classic, young Jonathan Harker first meets and then must destroy Count Dracula in order to save himself and those closest to him. The Dreamer Ryan, Pam Muñoz 136779 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 28871 N N - - - This book is a fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely read poets in the world. Dreams in the Golden Country: Lasky, Kathryn 18762 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 30180 N N - - N Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary Jewish Immigrant Girl account of the first 18 months of her family's life on the lower east side of New York. The Education of Mary: A Little Rinaldi, Ann 62199 EN MG 4.4 8.0 F 57551 N N - - - In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins Miss of Color, 1832 admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her arrest and the closing of her school. El Lector = the Reader Durbin, William 106052 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 39817 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old Bella tries to keep the tradition of lectors going in her Cuban American community when workers clash with the owners of the cigar factory, putting the jobs of lectors in jeopardy.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Eliza's Freedom Road: An Nolen, Jerdine 143560 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 27218 N N - - - A young slave girl begins writing in a Diary journal, documenting her journey via the Underground Railroad from Mary's Land to freedom in St. Catharines, Canada. Elizabeth's Song Wenberg, Michael 66402 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 2826 N N - - - This book is a fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folk song "Freight Train." Elizabeth: A Hornbook Christmas Carter, Anne Laurel 101940 EN MG 4.2 2.0 F 11854 N N - - - In 1762 in Nova Scotia, Elizabeth's mom is busy preparing for the arrival of a baby, and the plans to start a school in their home must be put on hold. But when Elizabeth learns that her friend Mathilde can't read, she is determined to help. Book #3 Elizabeth: To Pirate Island Carter, Anne Laurel 79576 EN MG 4.1 2.0 F 11894 N N - - - Elizabeth and Mathilde have become fast friends, but Sarah Worth is also Elizabeth's friend now. She hopes Sarah and Mathilde will learn to like each other and she wants the three of them to explore Pirate Island like her hero, Robinson Crusoe. Book #2 Elizabeth: Wide as Wings Carter, Anne Laurel 109034 EN MG 4.0 2.0 F 11878 N N - - - Elizabeth and Mathilde have become best friends, but the animosity between Mathilde's Acadian family and the local settlers may force the LeBlancs to move away from the place they call home. Book #4 Ellen's Story Kirby, Susan E. 60710 EN MG 4.3 5.0 F 37014 N N - - - Lacey's great-grandmother shares with her the story of Ellen, Lacey' great-great -great-great-grandmother, who grew up on an Illinois farm in 1830.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Ellen: A Time for Courage Harris, Dorothy Joan 109035 EN MG 4.3 2.0 F 11147 N N - - - Japanese Canadians are considered to be "enemies," and Amy Takashima and her family fear for their safety. Ellen cannot understand why her friend should be punished, especially since Amy was born in Canada and her parents are good neighbors. Book #4 Ellen: The Waiting Time Harris, Dorothy Joan 101941 EN LG 4.7 2.0 F 12350 N N - - - Ellen and her parents have grown accustomed to living with wartime food rationing, but news that Ellen's classmate Marjorie has been stricken with polio causes fear of an epidemic in the community. Book #3 Ellen: The Wishing Time Harris, Dorothy Joan 79577 EN MG 4.0 1.0 F 8426 N N - - - Ellen's father has gotten a good job, and her friendship with Amy, a Canadian girl of Japanese descent, relieves the loneliness of living in a new town. Then Japan becomes a hostile aggressor and Ellen discovers that war affects everyone. Book #2 Elsie's Bird Yolen, Jane 138402 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 1223 N N - - - Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston. Elska Hapka, Catherine 129431 EN MG 4.4 1.0 F 9116 N N - - - Around the year 1000, an Icelandic horse named Elska is born and learns about life and her role in the herd, as well as love and friendship when she rescues the girl to whom she originally belonged. Book #1 Emily Makes a Difference: A Time Grote, JoAnn A. 85149 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 35766 N N - - - Emily cannot believe the inventions of Progress and Problems displayed at the Chicago World's Fair, even automobiles. But an economic depression throws many Americans out of work, leaving them homeless and hungry, and creating Emily's opportunity to make a difference.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Emily: Across the James Bay Lawson, Julie 54979 EN MG 4.0 1.0 F 8488 N N - - - Emily's world is shaken when she Bridge befriends the family's servant, Hing, a Chinese immigrant. As she uncovers details of Hing's life in Chinatown and the tragic story of the family he's left behind in China, her heart is changed forever. Book #1 Emily: Building Bridges Lawson, Julie 72720 EN MG 4.2 2.0 F 14405 N N - - - Hing's family finally arrives and Emily meets Mei Yuk, Hing's daughter. After a rocky start, the two girls become friends. But as she begins to include Mei Yuk in her social life, she finds things changing between her and Alice, her best friend. Book #3 Emily: Disaster at the Bridge Lawson, Julie 62219 EN MG 4.1 2.0 F 12122 N N - - - Emily, her family and friends climb on board streetcars for the ride to Esquimalt to witness the celebrations. As Car 16 rolls onto the Point Ellice Bridge, the centre span of the bridge collapses, and the streetcar plunges into the Gorge. Book #2

Emily: Summer of Gold Lawson, Julie 84349 EN MG 4.5 2.0 F 13177 N N - - - Summer holds out new promise with Emily's discovery of a dog on the beach. Near death when she spots him and with no one to claim him, it doesn't take long before Emily's tender-loving care restores him to his happy and healthy self. Book #4 Emma Eileen Grove Duey, Kathleen 17618 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 27115 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from a Black Roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Emma's River Hart, Alison 135863 EN MG 4.4 4.0 F 27839 N N - - - In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother, and her pony board the steamboat "Sally May" to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship explodes in a fiery blaze, everyone onboard must fight for survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River. Emma's Secret: The Cincinnati Jones, Veda Boyd 102497 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 35652 N N - - - Natural disasters and social attitudes in Epidemic 1832 Cincinnati threaten to ruin twelve- year-old Emma Farley's secret hope. Can she rise above them to live her God -given dreams? The Empty Mirror Collier, James 83504 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 37970 N N - - N Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents Lincoln died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame. The Enemies of Jupiter Lawrence, Caroline 103556 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 43196 N N - - - In the winter of 80 A.D., the emperor calls Jonathan and his friends to Rome to find the new Prometheus believed to have brought an epidemic to the city. But Jonathan, obsessed with reuniting his parents, makes some unwise choices. Book #7 Enemy in the Fort Buckey, Sarah 52589 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 33279 N N - - - In 1754, with her own parents taken Masters captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charlestown, New Hampshire. Erie Trail West Panagopoulos, Janie 81731 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 34784 N N - - - Eleven-year-old Jennifer decides to Lynn humor her father by listening to entries in an old family journal. Much to her surprise she becomes involved in the story of Jenny Case, a New York farm girl who travels with her parents to the Michigan Territory.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Escape Across the Wide Sea Kirkpatrick, Katherine 83606 EN MG 4.5 5.0 F 34408 N N - - - After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, a young Huguenot boy and his parents travel on a to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York, where they help found the town of New Rochelle. Escape by Sea Lawrence, L.S. 129338 EN MG 4.6 7.0 F 50119 N N - - - When the city of Carthage falls to the Romans during the Punic Wars, Sara, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Carthaginian senator, must gather her grief-stricken father and take to the seas. The Ever-After Bird Rinaldi, Ann 118059 EN MG 4.1 6.0 F 45998 N N - - - In 1851, thirteen-year-old CeCe has her eyes opened to the horrors of when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in search of the rare scarlet ibis and sees him inform slaves about the Underground Railroad. Evie Peach Duey, Kathleen 18764 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 28486 N N - - - Emancipated by their owner's will, thirteen-year-old Evie and her father struggle to gain Mama's freedom and to make a home for themselves. Exiled! From Tragedy to Triumph Jackson, Louise A. 118544 EN MG 4.1 7.0 F 50995 N N - - - When twelve-year-old Ruthy Donohue is on the Missouri Frontier sent away from home because of an awful tragedy in the fall of 1837, she has to figure out how to cope with the hardships of travel in a wagon train and make a temporary life for herself among strangers. Exiles from the War: The War Little, Jean 136971 EN MG 4.8 7.0 F 49917 N N - - - When a frightened boy and girl arrive on Guests Diary of Charlotte Mary the Twiss family's doorstep to escape Twiss the war in England, Charlotte wonders how she can help her war guests feel safe, even as she starts to feel concerned.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Falling Star Cutting, Robert 126260 EN MG 4.0 0.5 F 3406 N N - - - In 1870, a baby is rescued by the Lakota people. They name him Falling Star and raise him as one of their own. Years later, as Chief Sitting Bull prepares for battle with the U.S. Army, Falling Star must decide which side he's on. The Famous Nini: A Mostly True Nethery, Mary 137458 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 1840 N N - - - In Venice, Italy, in the 1890s, a stray cat Story of How a Plain White Cat draws attention to a coffee shop where Became a Star he inspires composer Giuseppe Verdi. As the feline's fame grows, the shop's owner entertains royalty, the Pope, and many others. Fawn Peck, Robert Newton 80836 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 33319 N N - - - At the time of the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1758, an Indian boy, the son of a Jesuit priest, observes the savagery of the French, English, and Indians, and tries to save his father from what could be a terrible fate. Feivel's Flying Horses Hyde, Heidi Smith 136299 EN LG 4.4 0.5 F 1064 N N - - - A Jewish immigrant who is saving money to bring his wife and children to join him in America creates ornate horses for a carousel on Coney Island, lovingly carving the spirit of his wife and children into each special horse. Finest Kind Wait, Lea 110132 EN MG 4.5 7.0 F 48903 N N - - - When his father's Boston bank fails in 1838, causing his family to relocate to a small Maine town, twelve-year-old Jake Webber works to prepare the family for the harsh winter while also keeping the existence of his disabled younger brother a secret. Fiona McGilray's Story: A Voyage Pastore, Clare 82199 EN MG 4.2 5.0 F 38248 N N - - - Patrick and Fiona leave their family in from Ireland in 1849 Ireland behind to travel to America in search of their cousins and the promise of a new life.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Fire in the Hole! Farrell, Mary Cronk 82169 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 41123 N N - - - Mick dreams of going to college and becoming a newspaperman rather than a miner like his father. But when all union miners in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District are arrested, Mick becomes head of the family and is forced to make a difficult choice. Firestorm! Harlow, Joan Hiatt 141057 EN MG 4.4 8.0 F 54243 N N - - - A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames. Five Little Peppers and How They Namm, Diane 143125 EN MG 4.2 3.0 F 17823 N N - - - This abridged edition retells the Grew: Retold from the Margaret Margaret Sidney classic in which a Sidney Original fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman. Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Diary Gregory, Kristiana 50150 EN MG 4.4 2.0 F 12703 N N - - N A young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in in 1776. Flight from the Fortress Cook, Lyn 77999 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 37093 N N - - - When a French boy comes looking for his English father, he meets a young girl caring for two orphaned infants. After which, they flee to find refuge in the forest. Float and Sting! One Round with Miller, Davis 131072 EN MG 4.6 1.0 F 3842 N N - - - Davis Miller is a puny, little mouse at Muhammad Ali Mount Tabor High School. After years of being bullied, the sickly teen decides to become a boxer. One day, he gets a chance to spar with his hero, Muhammad Ali, a bout that will change his life.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Flying South Elliott, Laura Malone 70016 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 31948 N N - - - In Charlottesville, Virginia, amidst the social and political turmoil of 1968, eleven-year-old Alice learns when to fight battles and when to let go from her family's elderly gardener, Doc, and begins to connect with her widowed mother. Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Story Connelly, Bernardine 78506 EN LG 4.8 0.5 F 2883 N N - - - A young slave girl sets off to the North of the Underground Railroad with her brother and mother, following the star in the Drinking Gourd, or Big Dipper, that points to freedom. Freedom Train Coleman, Evelyn 120403 EN MG 4.2 4.0 F 26488 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Clyde's brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948. But Clyde is also learning about rights when an African American boy aids him during a beating. From Another World Machado, Ana Maria 88000 EN MG 4.9 4.0 F 24396 N N - - - Mariano and his friends are helping their parents renovate an old Brazilian coffee plantation into an inn when they meet Rosario, the ghost of a slave girl from the 1800s. From the Lighthouse Chipman, Liz 83162 EN MG 4.6 6.0 F 44518 N N - - - In 1938, thirteen-year-old Louise Bloom tries to figure out what caused her mother to leave her, her three brothers, their father, and the lighthouse on the Hudson River that they call home. The Fugitive from Corinth Lawrence, Caroline 110025 EN MG 4.8 7.0 F 49627 N N - - - Flavia and her friends pursue tutor Aristo from Corinth to Athens when he escapes after being accused of committing a brutal attack on Flavia's father. Book #10 The Further Adventures of a Lucky Wales, Dirk 133047 EN LG 4.7 1.0 F 3768 N N - - - This book describes the adventures of Dog: Owney, U.S. Rail Mail Mascot Owney, a stray dog that traveled around the United States on mail trains and wagons.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Gabriel's Horses Hart, Alison 113743 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 37328 N N - - - In Kentucky during the Civil War, twelve- year-old slave Gabriel contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey. Book #1 Gabriel's Triumph Hart, Alison 116714 EN MG 4.6 6.0 F 38964 N N - - - A thirteen-year-old newly freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York. Book #2 Galileo's Journal, 1609-1610 Pettenati, Jeanne K. 107447 EN LG 4.4 0.5 F 2539 N N - - - This fictional journal is from the year in which Galileo constructed his own telescope and began to record his astronomical discoveries. Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic Buckey, Sarah 68934 EN MG 4.3 5.0 F 34186 N N - - - In 1925, after witnessing the violent Masters actions of some gangsters, twelve-year- old Emily accompanies her older sister on a trip to a luxurious hotel on the New Jersey shore, but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel. 's Spy Woodruff, Elvira 140777 EN MG 4.7 6.0 F 41351 N N - - - Ten-year-old Matt and six other children travel to 1776 Boston, living out American history as they meet Benjamin Franklin, learn about colonial medicine, and become part of a rebel spy ring. The Ghost on the Hearth Milord, Susan 75928 EN LG 4.1 0.5 F 960 N N - - - In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Ghost Train Capeci, Anne 80427 EN MG 4.0 3.0 F 20775 N N - - - When Billy finds a burlap sack containing a pistol and a cryptic, threatening note, he and his best friends, Dannie and Finn, set out to learn who holds a grudge and is plotting against the railroad.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Ghost Voyages Taylor, Cora 60538 EN MG 4.9 4.0 F 24750 N N - - - A humorous and fast-paced ghost story with a twist! Ghost Voyages II: The Matthew Taylor, Cora 60539 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 23832 N N - - - Jeremy, the stamp traveller, helps explorer John Cabot make an important discovery, and he meets another adventurer like himself. Ghost Voyages IV: Champlain & Taylor, Cora 122104 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 24068 N N - - - In Jeremy's latest shipboard adventures, Cartier he journeys with Samuel de Champlain up the St. Lawrence river in 1606, and he's there to see Jacques Cartier's encounters with First Nations people. Ghosts of Vicksburg Ernst, Kathleen 103497 EN MG 4.9 7.0 F 49366 N N - - - When Jamie Carswell joins the 14th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment fighting in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he finds his cousin Althea living there, trying to make peace with her past and keep her family safe during the Union's siege. The Giant Rat of Sumatra: Or Fleischman, Sid 85481 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 26283 N N - - N A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds Pirates Galore himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico. Giles and Metacom: A Story of Dell, Pamela 62552 EN MG 4.6 1.0 F 4839 N N - - - In 1621, eleven-year-old Giles becomes Plimoth and the Wampanoag suspicious of a Wampanoag who keeps slipping in and out of Plimouth Colony's storehouse and determines to follow him to discover why. Girl in a Cage Yolen, Jane 61461 EN MG 4.9 9.0 F 59335 N N - - N As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display. The coauthor is Robert J. Harris. Book #2 The Girls They Left Behind Hunter, Bernice 86540 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 34260 N N - - - During World War II, a spunky teenager Thurman finds a way to contribute to the war effort while she waits for the boys in her life to come home.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Gold Rush Days Weiss, Ellen 55243 EN LG 4.0 1.0 F 9499 N N - - - Hitty's owner, Annie, is excited to travel with her father to California in search of gold, but it is a tough journey out West and an even tougher life when they arrive. Is there anything Annie can do to help out? A Golden Age Wickham, Martha 47345 EN MG 4.2 0.5 F 2354 N N - - - While on a field trip to the National Museum of American History, Emma imagines that she is her grandmother, sitting with her family listening to the radio as the end of Word War II is announced. Gone to Texas: From Virginia to Jackson, Louise A. 118545 EN MG 4.3 5.0 F 33387 N N - - - Recently orphaned, fourteen-year-old Adventure Ephraim Darter is determined to make the long journey from western Virginia to Texas, where he hopes to find adventure and a place to call home. Goodbye, Charley Buchanan, Jane 82255 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 38880 N N - - - In 1943, twelve-year-old Celie's father brings home a rhesus monkey that helps Celie deal with all the difficulties that the war has brought into her life in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Grace and the Bully: Drought on Lutz, Norma Jean 108143 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 35290 N N - - - Ten-year-old Cincinnatian Grace the Frontier 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. The Grave Robber's Secret Myers, Anna 144944 EN MG 4.4 8.0 F 56224 N N - - - In Philadelphia in the 1800s, twelve-year -old Robby is forced to help his father rob graves. Then when he suspects his father and a boarder of murder, Robby makes a life-changing decision. Grease Town Towell, Ann 136353 EN MG 4.6 7.0 F 47731 N N - - - When twelve-year-old Titus Sullivan and his older brother, Lem, decide to run away to join Uncle Amos, they find an alien and exciting world in Oil Springs, the first Canadian oil boomtown of the nineteenth century.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Great Wonder: The Building of Howard, Annabelle 52331 EN MG 4.0 0.5 F 2017 N N - - - While on a field trip to the Smithsonian's the Great Pyramid Museum of Natural History, Kevin imagines himself taking part in the final stage of the construction of the Great Pyramid near the Egyptian town of Giza more than 4,000 years ago. The Greatest Skating Race: A Borden, Louise 78014 EN MG 4.9 1.0 F 4391 N N - - N During World War II, a ten-year-old boy WWII Story from the Netherlands helps two children ice skate past German soldiers and escape to Belgium. The Green Glass Sea Klages, Ellen 109556 EN MG 4.6 10.0 F 67707 N N - - N In 1943, 11-year-old Dewey is going to live with her father in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He is working on a top-secret government program with other eminent scientists. No one knows how the gadget is about to change the world. The Green Men of Gressingham Ardagh, Philip 103477 EN MG 4.7 1.0 F 7822 N N - - - Tom Dashwood looks forward to becoming a knight, but on his way to start his training, he is kidnapped by Robyn-in-the-Hat and the Green Men of Gressingham, a band of outlaws who are protesting unfair taxes. Greener Grass Pignat, Caroline 130052 EN MG 4.4 7.0 F 51243 N N - - - The Byrne family is strong, but they are being tested every day as life becomes more and more desperate in nineteenth- century rural Ireland, forcing the family to leave their homeland. Guttersnipe Cutler, Jane 130709 EN LG 4.2 0.5 F 1596 N N - - - In Canada early in the twentieth century, Ben, the youngest in a family of Jewish immigrants struggling to make ends meet, decides to help out. When a hatmaker gives him a chance, disaster strikes and Ben nearly loses hope. Hachiko Waits Newman, Lesléa 82246 EN MG 4.7 2.0 F 13607 N N - - - Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor has a fatal heart attack while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Hallelujah Lass: A Story Based Lawton, Wendy 82570 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 31009 N N - - - This book follows the experiences of on the Life of Salvation Army sixteen-year-old Eliza Shirley, who Pioneer Eliza Shirley traveled from England to the United States in 1879 to pioneer the work of the Salvation Army. Hana in the Time of the Tulips Noyes, Deborah 81397 EN LG 4.4 0.5 F 2070 N N - - - A little girl seeks to regain her father's attention during the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland. Handshake in Space: The Apollo- Tan, Sheri 52319 EN MG 4.4 0.5 F 1673 N N - - - During a field trip to the Smithsonian's Soyuz Test Project National Air and Space Museum, Lucy and Kevin time travel to the 1975 Apollo -Soyuz Test Project. Hanukkah at Valley Forge Krensky, Stephen 109397 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 1025 N N - - - During the Revolutionary War, a Jewish soldier from Poland lights the menorah on the first night of Hanukkah and tells General George Washington the story of the Maccabees and the miracle that Hanukkah celebrates. This story is based on factual events. Happy Times in Noisy Village Lindgren, Astrid 120351 EN LG 4.6 3.0 F 20288 N N - - - The families who live on Middle Farm, North Farm, and South Farm enjoy the chaos and merriment of one escapade after another while growing up next to one another in what is honestly named Noisy Village. Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Avi 125659 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 35078 N N - - - Early Whitcomb, whose family's farm in Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old Iowa is failing due to drought, heads West west in search of his uncle Jesse, who has gone to find gold to help prevent foreclosure. When Early discovers that Jesse is in trouble, he makes some hard decisions. Hattie Marshall and the Prowling Smith, Debra 88594 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 28455 N N - - - Hattie, a spunky twelve-year-old, Panther frequently needs to call on the Lord's help as she experiences both the dangers and the fun of family life on a Texas farm in the 1890s.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Hattie's Story Kirby, Susan E. 60712 EN MG 4.1 5.0 F 37302 N N - - - Lacey's great-grandmother shares with her the story of Hattie, Lacey's great- great-grandmother, who grew up in Illinois in 1856. Illinois was a free state, but the law allowed slave hunters to search for runaway slaves. Healing Water: A Hawaiian Story Hostetter, Joyce 122075 EN MG 4.5 8.0 F 57820 N N - - - When teenaged Pia is sent to Hawaii's Moyer leprosy settlement on Molokai Island in the 1860s, he chooses anger and self- reliance as his means of survival, but the faithful example of other villagers and one priest threaten to destroy his desire for revenge. Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Hopkinson, Deborah 83014 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 36143 N N - - - Forced to drop out of school at the age Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist of fourteen to help support her family, Worker Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909. Hear the Wind Blow: A Novel of the Hahn, Mary Downing 69060 EN MG 4.5 8.0 F 57262 N N - - N With their mother dead and their home Civil War burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War. Hearts of Iron Duble, Kathleen 110566 EN MG 4.3 6.0 F 41845 N N - - - In early 1800s Connecticut, fifteen-year- Benner old Lucy struggles with her new feelings for her childhood friend while deciding whether to encourage a relationship with the young man from Boston who has come to work in her father's store. Hellie Jondoe Platt, Randall 134489 EN MG 4.4 9.0 F 59484 N N - - - In 1918, as World War I ends and the Spanish influenza pandemic begins, thirteen-year-old Hellie survives as a beggar and pickpocket on the streets of New York until she boards the orphan train to Oregon, where she learns about the meaning of family.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Here Today Martin, Ann M. 82163 EN MG 4.9 9.0 F 60917 N N - - N In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven- year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school. Heroes Don't Run: A Novel of the Mazer, Harry 88487 EN MG 4.0 3.0 F 21975 N N - - N To honor his father who died during the Pacific War Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa. Hill Hawk Hattie Clark, Clara Gillow 70200 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 29858 N N - - - Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on a adventure- filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia. Hitler's Daughter French, Jackie 68982 EN MG 4.3 3.0 F 23266 N N - - N After hearing a fictional tale about Hitler's daughter, Mark wonders what it would be like if someone he loved and trusted turned out to be evil. Hoggee Myers, Anna 83608 EN MG 4.5 7.0 F 49859 N N - - - Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language. Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Lasky, Kathryn 73388 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 14398 N N - - N In 1903, ten-year-old Sofia and her Diary: Book Two family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Home Is Beyond the Mountains Lottridge, Celia 136863 EN MG 4.5 8.0 F 57747 N N - - - Nine-year-old Samira and her Assyrian Barker family are driven from their village when the Turkish army invades Persia in 1918. After only she and her brother survive, they are moved from one orphanage to another and eventually returned to their home. Home Is with Our Family Hansen, Joyce 141715 EN MG 4.6 9.0 F 61929 N N - - - Maria, who is excited about turning thirteen and participating in adult activities, finds herself facing more than expected when New York City plans to turn her home into a park and her friend has issues even bigger than losing a house. Honey Cake Stuchner, Joan 125759 EN LG 4.0 1.0 F 10659 N N - - - David and his family live in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, until September 1943 when their neighbors help smuggle them to Sweden to escape Hitler's orders to send the Danish Jews to concentration camps. Hope in My Heart: Sofia's Lasky, Kathryn 73389 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 13371 N N - - N After her family immigrates to America Immigrant Diary: Book One from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend, but endures nightmarish conditions. Horse Raid: An Arapaho Camp in Korman, Susan 52320 EN MG 4.1 0.5 F 2007 N N - - - While visiting the Smithsonian the 1800s Institution's Museum of Natural History to see the Native Cultures of the Americas exhibit, Kevin travels back in time to an Arapaho Indian camp in the mid-1800s. Horseback on the Boston Post Lawlor, Laurie 54163 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 31238 N N - - - As the winter of 1704 approaches, New Road, 1704 Englanders are reeling from the news of war with the French and Indians. Identical twin servants, twelve-year-olds Hester and Philena, travel on a dangerous journey from Boston toward New Haven, Connecticut.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description A House of Tailors Giff, Patricia Reilly 82024 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 33381 N N - - N When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her wish is to return home soon. But as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle, she thinks of Brooklyn as her home. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: McFadden, Deanna 121593 EN MG 4.0 3.0 F 17940 N N - - - This abridged edition is a retelling of the Retold from the Victor Hugo tale set in medieval Paris, of Original Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. Ice Cream Town Arato, Rona 114514 EN MG 4.0 5.0 F 37545 N N - - - Even though Sammy is drawn to the streets of his new city, New York is no place for a kid fresh off the boat from Europe. The leader of the local gang offers him protection, but Sammy may have to pay too high a price. Imperfections Durrant, Lynda 126929 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 40550 N N - - - Fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth comes to the Shaker community of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, to escape her abusive alcoholic father, but she finds herself breaking every Shaker rule. Perfection, she discovers, is a complicated business. In Plain Sight Hurst, Carol Otis 58909 EN MG 4.3 4.0 F 30634 N N - - - Eleven-year-old Sarah copes with emotional and economic hardships when her beloved but irresponsible father leaves the family and their Massachusetts farm to prospect for gold in California. In the Garden with Dr. Carver Grigsby, Susan 138945 EN LG 4.8 0.5 F 1304 N N - - - This fictionalized account of plant scientist George Washington Carver shares the story of how he taught children to grow plants and reap the rewards of nature's bounty. The text includes factual notes about Dr. Carver.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description In the Pocket: Johnny Unitas and Leonetti, Mike 125913 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 2765 N N - - - Billy dreams of playing quarterback for Me the Colts one day, like Johnny Unitas, and although his coach insists he play receiver until he is bigger, Billy in inspired to try harder after meeting his hero and seeing the Colts win the 1958 NFL championship. In the Shadow of the Pali: A Story Cindrich, Lisa 59379 EN MG 4.6 8.0 F 57841 N N - - - In the late nineteenth century, twelve- of the Hawaiian Leper Colony year-old Liliha is sent to the Kalaupapa Leprosy Colony at Molokai, Hawaii, where she struggles to endure savage living conditions and people, as well as her own disease. Insight Greenwood, Diana 144151 EN MG 4.7 8.0 F 55685 N N - - - After ten-year-old Elvira's father goes missing in World War II and her mother gives birth to a daughter who is a seer, the family leaves their rural Wisconsin home on a journey that reveals secrets and leads to forgiveness and healing for Elvira. Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Hopkinson, Deborah 109200 EN MG 4.2 5.0 F 37895 N N - - - Days after arriving in San Francisco Francisco, 1906 from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires. Irish Chain Haworth-Attard, 65913 EN MG 4.3 8.0 F 57946 N N - - - On December 6, 1917, two ships Barbara explode in Halifax's harbour, resulting in the greatest human tragedy Canada has ever seen. Grief-stricken, Rose draws courage from the heroic stories of her great-grandmother that are stitched into her Irish Chain quilt.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Iron Dragon: The Courageous Pryor, Bonnie 139169 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 34136 N N - - - Teenager Lee Chin leaves China and Story of Lee Chin goes to California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where he defies his father's wishes, saves his money to free his younger sister from , and brings her to join him in America. Iron Thunder: The Battle Between Avi 118700 EN MG 4.3 4.0 F 27752 N N - - - After his father dies fighting for the the Monitor & the Merrimac: A Civil Union, thirteen-year-old Tom takes a job War Novel at the local ironworks, where he helps build a ship for the Union army and is approached by Confederate spies to sell the ship's secrets. Izzie: Patricia's Secret Wilson, Budge 101943 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 12135 N N - - - When Izzie's family learn they can return to Granite Cove for the summer, Izzie invites her friend Patricia to stay with them. But there is no escaping the reality of war, and one day the family receives a telegram that changes their lives. Book #3 Izzie: Trongate Fury Wilson, Budge 101944 EN MG 4.7 2.0 F 13986 N N - - - It's 1942, and Izzie's life is changing. Her father has finally been accepted by the Canadian navy, and the rest of the family is moving to Dartmouth so that Izzie's mother can work. Book #2 Jackie's Bat Lorbiecki, Marybeth 104178 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 2567 N N - - - Joey, the batboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, learns a hard lesson about respect for people of different races after Jackie Robinson joins the team. Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story Drucker, Malka 7046 EN MG 4.5 3.0 F 23082 N N - - N This book is a powerful Holocaust story based on real events about a Jewish boy rescued from Nazis. Jane Eyre Vogel, Malvina G. 85728 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 26006 N N - - - In this abridged version of the Charlotte Brontë classic, an orphaned young English woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Janey G. Blue Duey, Kathleen 50153 EN MG 4.9 4.0 F 25494 N N - - - Janey moves to Oahu, where her father has come to work at Hickam Airfield. On December 7th, Japanese bombs shatter the peace. Fleeing with her mother, brother, and the girl across the street, Janey is terrified for her father at the airfield. Janie's Freedom: African- Grant, Callie Smith 108144 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 35363 N N - - - Janie finds herself in a quandary. The Americans in the Aftermath of the War Between the States is now over, Civil War and Miss Laura, widowed mistress of Rubyhill Plantation, has told Rubyhill's former slaves they are welcome to stay or free to leave. But Janie is undecided on what to do. Jason and the Deadly Diamonds Hutsell-Manning, 82764 EN MG 4.8 8.0 F 53578 N N - - - In this exciting sequel to JASON AND Linda THE WONDER HORN, twelve-year-old Jason Carter travels with his friend Charlotte and her little brother Squid to seventeenth-century Luxembourg where they meet an innocent man about to be hanged.

Jennie's War: The Home Front in Hinman, Bonnie 102498 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 34535 N N - - - Ten-year-old Jennie Fleming is doing World War 2 what she can to help the war effort in 1944 by working in the Victory Garden in her Seattle neighborhood, but she does not know where to turn when she begins to suspect a neighbor of being a spy. Jimmy's Stars Rodman, Mary Ann 122207 EN MG 4.1 7.0 F 52583 N N - - - In 1943, 11-year-old Ellie is her brother Jimmy's "best girl." When he leaves Pittsburgh just before Thanksgiving to fight in WWII, he promises he will return, asks her to leave the Christmas tree up until he does, and reminds her to "let the joy out."

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Joe Louis, My Champion Miller, William 78984 EN LG 4.2 0.5 F 1943 N N - - - After listening to the radio broadcast of the heavyweight championship boxing fight of his hero, Joe Louis, a young African American boy realizes that he can emulate the boxer's persistence and strive to become whatever he wants to be. John Philip Duck Polacco, Patricia 79229 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 2480 N N - - N During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duckmaster of the Peabody Hotel. Joshua's Song Harlow, Joan Hiatt 54846 EN MG 4.0 4.0 F 27214 N N - - N Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets. Josie Poe Duey, Kathleen 32161 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 28784 N N - - - Josie Poe spends long nights afraid that bombs could begin to fall at any moment. Her days are not only consumed with trying to find ways to help the war effort, but she must also deal with her ill feelings toward her brother. The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Rinaldi, Ann 42452 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 30553 N N - - N A fourteen-year-old indentured servant Pierce: A Pilgrim Boy keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth in 1620 and 1621. The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: Yep, Laurence 35833 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 38321 N N - - N A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt A Chinese Miner records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp Panagopoulos, Janie 81732 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 28274 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Gus McCarty struggles Lynn at school with an obnoxious classmate named Al until an accident sends him back in time to a lumber camp with an equally troublesome lumberjack named Alex. The Journey of Emilie Hoehne, Marcia 70005 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 36097 N N - - - After traveling from Germany to settle in Wisconsin, Emilie's family finds life hard until they find a mysterious stash of money hidden in their china pitcher. The Journey of Pieter and Anna DenBoer, Helen 70007 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 35965 N N - - - After his family emigrates from Holland, Pieter convinces them to help a girl they met on a canal boat who is trying to get to Michigan to find her father. Juliet's Moon Rinaldi, Ann 122064 EN MG 4.2 6.0 F 44909 N N - - - In Missouri in 1863, twelve-year-old Juliet Bradshaw learns to rely on herself and her brother, a captain with Quantrill's Raiders, as she sees her family home burned, is imprisoned by Yankees, and then kidnapped by a blood-crazed Confederate soldier. Just Call Me Joe Wishinsky, Frieda 75379 EN MG 4.2 2.0 F 13252 N N - - - Life in New York City in the early twentieth century is tougher than Joseph ever dreamed it would be. Kate and the Spies: The American Grote, JoAnn A. 85150 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 35939 N N - - - When Kate Milton and her cousin Revolution happen across the Boston Tea Party, they unwittingly step into the midst of the American Revolution. Kate finds herself pulled deeper into the conflict when her cousin begins to spy for the Patriots. Katie and the Mustang: Book One Duey, Kathleen 78909 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 25632 N N - - - Orphaned at age six, nine-year-old Katie Rose spends her days doing chores and dreaming of going west to find her uncle. When Mr. Stevens brings home an unbroken Mustang, Katie's world changes, and she makes plans to take the Mustang and travel west.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Katie and the Mustang: Book Two Duey, Kathleen 78911 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 24863 N N - - - Soon after Katie, Hiram the farmhand, and the Mustang begin their journey west, they meet up with a large family who invite them to join their caravan. But tragedy strikes, and Katie must choose between staying with Hiram and her dream to go west. Kaya and Lone Dog: A Friendship Shaw, Janet 62887 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 11641 N N - - N When Kaya befriends a lone dog that Story has wandered near her camp, others in the village warn her to be careful. Kaya Shows the Way: A Sister Shaw, Janet 62888 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 10695 N N - - N Summertime means salmon fishing at Story thundering Celilo Falls -- and horse racing, games, parades, feasting, and dancing, too. Kaya loves to join in the fun, but she's also got something serious on her mind: searching for her lost sister. Kaya's Escape! A Survival Story Shaw, Janet 62889 EN MG 4.7 2.0 F 10652 N N - - N In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Perce village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Kaya's Hero: A Story of Giving Shaw, Janet 62890 EN MG 4.9 2.0 F 10850 N N - - N In 1764, Kaya greatly admires a courageous and kind young woman in her Nez Perce village and wants to be worthy of her respect. Keeley: Keeley and the Mountain Ellis, Deborah 105332 EN MG 4.5 2.0 F 13758 N N - - - Keeley is busier than ever, hatching plans for her newspaper and preparing for the upcoming spelling bee. Everything changes, however, when a disastrous landslide leaves much of the town in ruins, struggling for survival. Book #3 Keeley: Keeley Carries On Ellis, Deborah 127998 EN MG 4.1 2.0 F 11286 N N - - - Suddenly left as an orphan by a rockslide, Keeley decides to travel to Winnipeg to find Cora Hind, the reporter who befriended her, rather than live with her grandparents in Lethbridge. Book #4

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Keeley: Keeley's Big Story Ellis, Deborah 101945 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 14767 N N - - - It's 1902, and Keeley has decided that she wants to be a newspaper reporter. What better way to start off her career than by solving a mystery and writing about it for the new local paper? Book #2 Keeley: The Girl from Turtle Ellis, Deborah 76410 EN MG 4.5 2.0 F 13528 N N - - - It's September 1901, and ten-year-old Mountain Keeley and her father are making a fresh start, after the death of Keeley's mother, in a brand new town called Frank that sits in a valley at the bottom of Turtle Mountain in southern Alberta. Book #1

A Killing in Plymouth Colony Hurst, Carol Otis 73951 EN MG 4.3 4.0 F 29721 N N - - - In Plymouth Colony in the 1630s, John continually disappoints his father, Governor William Bradford, during a difficult time as the colony faces its first murder and subsequent trial. The coauthor is Rebecca Otis. King's Courage Deutsch, Stacia 103954 EN LG 4.3 2.0 F 14935 N N - - - Abigail, Zack, Jacob, and Bo are going to jump back to the past to meet Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.! The kids need to convince Dr. King not to get discouraged and to lead one of his famous voting rights marches. The coauthor is Rhody Cohon. Book #4 Kings Mountain Wisler, G. Clifton 60435 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 35204 N N - - - Fourteen-year-old Francis leaves his mountain home in the South to help the patriot cause during the Revolutionary War. Kira-Kira Kadohata, Cynthia 74071 EN MG 4.7 7.0 F 44326 N N - - N This book chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Kirsten's Promise Shaw, Janet 84336 EN MG 4.0 0.5 F 3503 N N - - - Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home. Kit's Tree House Tripp, Valerie 84337 EN MG 4.6 1.0 F 3555 N N - - - Ten-year-old Kit dreams of having a special tree house someday, but she is disappointed with the one her father and her friend build for her. Kitty and Mr. Kipling: Neighbors in Blegvad, Lenore 101935 EN LG 4.7 3.0 F 20221 N N - - - In 1892, eight-year-old Kitty learns Vermont about writing and the world beyond her Dummerston, Vermont, home when she befriends her new neighbors, author Rudyard Kipling and his family, who have recently arrived from England. Lake of Skulls Stewart, Paul 81140 EN MG 4.9 1.0 F 9176 N N - - - An unbonded knight traveling as a "free lance" meets more than his share of trouble when he signs on with Lord Big Nose to recover a crown from the Lake of Skulls. The coauthor is Chris Riddell. Book #1. Last Chance Bay Carter, Anne Laurel 83718 EN MG 4.5 6.0 F 38125 N N - - - Set in Cape Breton during Second World War, this book tells the story of Meg, a young girl who dreams of flying. Inspired by her heroines Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham, Meg's dream is a lofty one and unlikely to ever come true. The Last Full Measure Rinaldi, Ann 140575 EN MG 4.4 7.0 F 49060 N N - - - In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while her father serves as a doctor in the Union army and tries to keep her friend Marvelous, a free black, safe from rebel soldiers. The plot contains profanity.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Last Rail: The Building of the Bailer, Darice 52332 EN MG 4.4 0.5 F 1976 N N - - - While on a field trip to the National First Transcontinental Railroad Museum of American History, Lucy imagines herself as Andrew Russell, taking a picture of the joining of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869. Laura's Victory: End of the Second Jones, Veda Boyd 108145 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 36092 N N - - - As World War II draws to a close, Laura World War comes to admire her Japanese American neighbor whose father is fighting for the U.S. Army in Europe, but will she be strong enough to defend her new friend from the persecution of schoolmates? Leaving Gee's Bend Latham, Irene 135127 EN MG 4.5 7.0 F 48579 N N - - - Ludelphia Bennett, a determined, ten- year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home to find medical help for her sick mother and recounts her adventures in a quilt she is making. The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Grutman, Jewel H. 70414 EN MG 4.6 0.5 F 2471 N N - - - Text and illustrations present a fictional Eagle account of a young Sioux warrior, his childhood on the Plains, his journey East, and his adventures at the Carlisle Indian School. The coauthor is Gay Matthaei. Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Grey, Christopher 110136 EN MG 4.9 14.0 F 92546 N N - - - Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Leonardo da Vinci, helps his Vinci's Servant procrastinating master finish painting THE LAST SUPPER while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan. Lesia's Dream Langston, Laura 73796 EN MG 4.1 7.0 F 50650 N N - - - Dreaming of fields of wheat and wealth and security, Lesia's family looks forward to a life in Canada free from hunger and poverty and rumours of war. Life in her adopted country is not what she bargained for, but she discovers dreams can come true.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Letters from a Slave Boy: The Lyons, Mary E. 114033 EN MG 4.3 5.0 F 34561 N N - - - This fictionalized account of the life of Story of Joseph Jacobs Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, is told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, and finally in California during the Gold Rush. Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Myers, Laurie 66726 EN MG 4.0 1.0 F 7906 N N - - N Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Tale Newfoundland dog, describes Lewis and Clark's expedition, which he accompanied from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. Liam's Watch: A Strange Story of Dell, Pamela 62553 EN MG 4.8 1.0 F 4984 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Liam and his family the Great Chicago Fire must flee their home when a fire rages through Chicago in 1871. in the Cellar: A Molly Buckey, Sarah 118252 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 24342 N N - - - While volunteering as a magazine Mystery Masters delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market. Lisa: Have I Found a Gold Mine? Galloway, Priscilla 127999 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 13992 N N - - - Lisa and her friend Archie love mining for gold, so they are happy when Lisa's father purchases a claim in Cameronton in 1963. However, it turns out there is a dispute regarding the ownership of the claim. Book #4 Lisa: Overland to Cariboo Galloway, Priscilla 66589 EN MG 4.4 2.0 F 12903 N N - - - As Lisa and her family battle their way across the prairies and over the mountains to the goldfields of Cariboo, they encounter terrible hardships -- and learn how important they are to one another. Book #1

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Lisa: The Trail to Golden Cariboo Galloway, Priscilla 86780 EN MG 4.9 2.0 F 14458 N N - - - It is June 1862. Lisa and her family are now in Kamloops, almost at the end of their journey to Cariboo. With baby Rose to take care of, her parents are happy to stay put. Lisa can't believe they want to stay and give up a chance to find gold. Book #2 Lisa: The Trouble with Gold Galloway, Priscilla 128000 EN MG 4.4 2.0 F 14459 N N - - - It is 1863, and the fortunes of Lisa and the McNaughtons are looking up. The gold nugget Lisa discovered will pay for her family to be reunited with her in the mining town of Cameronton, and she, Archie, and Mr. Wattie have staked their claim. Book #3 The Listening Tree Lottridge, Celia 143739 EN MG 4.3 5.0 F 33240 N N - - - It is 1935, and when Ellen overhears a Barker plan to evict the family next door from their home, she must overcome her fears and help them. Little Men: Retold from the Louisa McFadden, Deanna 143128 EN MG 4.9 3.0 F 19755 N N - - - This abridged edition retells the Louisa May Alcott Original May Alcott classic of Jo March and her husband, Professor Bhaer, as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place. The Little Ships: The Heroic Borden, Louise 21156 EN MG 4.5 0.5 F 1739 N N - - - A young English girl and her father Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II attempt to rescue Allied and British troops trapped by Nazi soldiers at Dunkirk. Lizzie and the Redcoat: Stirrings of Miller, Susan Martins 108146 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 30577 N N - - - Tensions simmer in 1765 Boston when Revolution in the American residents of the city are dividing over Colonies loyalty to England, and the divisions strike within Lizzie's own family, as her brother and father often find themselves at odds. Lizzie's Storm Fitz-Gibbon, Sally 77938 EN MG 4.0 1.0 F 8242 N N - - - When an accident leaves her orphaned, Lizzie moves to a prairie farm in Canada.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Lord of the Nutcracker Men Lawrence, Iain 54164 EN MG 4.5 8.0 F 51767 N N - - N An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front. Lorenzo's Secret Mission Guzmán, Lila 60436 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 39858 N N - - - In 1776, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister leaves Texas and his father's new grave to carry a letter to the Virginia grandfather he has never known. The coauthor is Rick Guzmán. Lost in America Sachs, Marilyn 103616 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 30210 N N - - - Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City. The Lost Village of Central Park Killcoyne, Hope 34717 EN MG 4.7 2.0 F 14374 N N - - - In Seneca Village, in the middle of New Lourie York City in the 1850s, friends Kayla and Sooncy face separation when the city announces that by eminent domain it plans to take their land to build Central Park. The Luck of the Buttons Ylvisaker, Anne 143565 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 31031 N N - - - In a small Iowa town in 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around with the help of a Brownie camera and a mystery only she can solve. The Lucky Baseball: My Story in a Lieurance, Suzanne 132639 EN MG 4.5 5.0 F 34055 N N - - - In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Japanese-American Internment Harbor, twelve-year-old baseball-loving Camp Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp, where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Lucky Beans Birtha, Becky 136391 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 1615 N N - - - During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Lucky Sovereign Lees, Stewart 59928 EN LG 4.6 0.5 F 1415 N N - - - Sam and his father sail from England to America to begin a new life in Jamestown. However, they run into trouble when their money is stolen and they have to defend themselves in court. The Lucky Star Young, Judy 122639 EN LG 4.6 0.5 F 2181 N N - - - In 1933, facing the hardships of the Great Depression, Ruth learns to follow her mother's example and count her lucky stars when she turns her disappointment of not being able to attend fourth grade into a blessing for her younger sister. Lunch-Box Dream Abbott, Tony 145078 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 32323 N N - - - Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing. Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Miller, Susan Martins 85151 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 31008 N N - - - Lydia knows in her heart of hearts that Massacre the patriot cause is true and just, so why can't other members of her family see that as well? When the Boston Massacre occurs, she finds herself witnessing a spark that helps to ignite the Revolution. Macaroni Boy Ayres, Katherine 69015 EN MG 4.7 6.0 F 37899 N N - - - In Pittsburgh in 1933, sixth-grader Mike Costa notices a connection between several strange occurrences, but the only way he can find out the truth about what's happening is to be nice to the class bully. Madame Cadillac's Ghost Panagopoulos, Janie 81733 EN MG 4.9 3.0 F 17646 N N - - - Allie and Shoo Spywell are looking Lynn forward to spending some quality time with their parents on their family trip to Detroit, but when Allie becomes involved in the stories of a mysterious woman, strange things begin to happen.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Magpie Gabbard and the Quest for Keehn, Sally M. 109810 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 33947 N N - - N The Gabbards and Sizemores have the Buried Moon been feuding, but both families put aside their considerable differences to outthink the Cob Hollow Goblins to save the moon. The Maid, the Witch, and the Cruel Deary, Terry 88890 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 3499 N N - - - A poor serving girl conspires to save an Queen innocent woman that Lord Scuggate is planning to burn as a witch in order to impress the queen. Mandy the Outsider: Prelude to Lutz, Norma Jean 85152 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 35211 N N - - - Ten-year-old Mandy doesn't fit in at her World War 2 new school in Seattle and is teased and called names when she forms a friendship with a Japanese family from her former neighborhood. Margit: A Bit of Love and a Bit of Kacer, Kathy 86744 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 11945 N N - - - It is 1946, and the war is finally over. Luck Margit's father has returned to his family after being held in a concentration camp, and Margit is thrilled. Her family is trying hard in their new home, but Toronto is very different from Czechoslovakia. Book #2 Margit: A Friend in Need Kacer, Kathy 128001 EN MG 4.9 2.0 F 14778 N N - - - It is 1947, and Margit and her family have settled into their new life in Toronto's Kensington Market. At Margit's urging, the family has agreed to take in a Polish orphan. Book #4 Margit: Open Your Doors Kacer, Kathy 105333 EN MG 4.9 2.0 F 13055 N N - - - It is 1947, and Canada has opened its borders to one thousand Jewish war orphans. When Margit's own Toronto Jewish community is asked to open its homes and hearts to these children, she is determined to welcome a child to her family. Book #3 Marie-Claire: A Season of Sorrow Stinson, Kathy 62217 EN MG 4.7 2.0 F 10651 N N - - - The smallpox epidemic has descended upon Marie-Claire and her family. How are they, their community and the church going to cope with the epidemic, as well as with the controversial vaccine meant to guard against it?

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Marika Cheng, Andrea 65681 EN MG 4.1 5.0 F 34112 N N - - - Although she has been raised Catholic, Marika learns how dangerous it is to be of Jewish heritage and living in Hungary during World War II. The Mariner's Curse Lunn, John 83352 EN MG 4.4 7.0 F 45593 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Rory has always been fascinated by the sea and ships, so when his mother and her new husband take him on an ocean trip, Rory thinks his dreams have come true, until a mysterious passenger leads him to wonder if the ship may be cursed. Mary Alice Peale Duey, Kathleen 17630 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 28064 N N - - - When her wounded brother returns from battle, twelve-year-old Mary must get help for him without telling her father a wealthy Tory, who has disowned his son for joining General Washington's Continental Army. Maureen the Detective: The Age of Jones, Veda Boyd 102501 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 35252 N N - - - In 1903, eleven-year-old immigrant Immigration Maureen Stevenson is ready to become a U.S. citizen, as well as solve the case of who's stealing artwork from her employer's mansion. Meadow Lark Finley, Mary Peace 112346 EN MG 4.6 7.0 F 49156 N N - - - Leaving her home in Taos, Mexico, in 1845, thirteen-year-old Teresita joins a wagon train, hoping to find both her brother Julio and a new life for herself that is different from that of her mother. Meet Cécile, an American Girl Patrick, Denise Lewis 147372 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 15134 N N - - - Cécile Rey, a well-to-do black girl in 1853 New Orleans, looks forward to having a one-of-a-kind costume at Mardi Gras and her brother's return from France, while forming a friendship and having a daring adventure with Marie- Grace Gardner. Meet Kaya, an American Girl Shaw, Janet 62893 EN MG 4.2 1.0 F 9915 N N - - N In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Perce Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Meet Marie-Grace, an American Buckey, Sarah 147373 EN MG 4.9 2.0 F 15156 N N - - - After arriving in New Orleans, Marie- Girl Masters Grace meets the talented opera singer Mademoiselle Océana and becomes friends with Cécile Rey, a student of Mademoiselle. Meet Rebecca, an American Girl Greene, Jacqueline 132089 EN MG 4.5 2.0 F 12040 N N - - - Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish Dembar girl living in New York in 1914, aspires to be an actress, despite her family's objection to it, and uses her acting skills to raise money to save her cousins in Russia from danger. Book #1 Meg Follows a Dream: The Fight Lutz, Norma Jean 85154 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 35333 N N - - - Meg, an aspiring artist, can only think for Freedom about drawing and is frustrated when her family, much more concerned with practical living and politics, can't understand her desire to create drawings. Message in the Sky: Corey's Wyeth, Sharon 71309 EN MG 4.0 1.0 F 9819 N N - - N Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former Underground Railroad Diary Dennis slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859. Midnight in Lonesome Hollow: A Kit Ernst, Kathleen 118248 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 27174 N N - - - While staying with Aunt Millie in the Mystery Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in the summer of 1934, Kit tries to discover who is sabotaging a visiting folklore researcher. Millie: Ride the River Harrison, Troon 76411 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 11458 N N - - - It's 1914 and life in the Kawarthas is much different than Millie's urban existence in Toronto. In the course of a wonderful, adventurous summer, she learns about another way of life-and about herself-in ways that she would never have imagined. Book #1

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Millie: The Button Necklace Harrison, Troon 101946 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 11860 N N - - - Ten-year-old tomboy Millie has just learned that her father, like other Canadian men, will be leaving for England to join in the war. She promises him that she'll stay out of trouble, but for a girl as lively as Millie, that's a hard promise! Book #2 Millie: The Star Supper Harrison, Troon 128003 EN MG 4.5 2.0 F 13458 N N - - - It is December 1914, and Millie is looking forward to a beautiful Victorian Christmas, just as usual. With her father away fighting in the war, she is especially determined to keep holiday traditions alive during this time of turmoil. Book #3 Mind Your Manners, Alice Kimmelman, Leslie 133344 EN LG 4.1 0.5 F 1074 N N - - - This book is a fictionalized account of Roosevelt! what life was like for Theodore Roosevelt with his oldest daughter, Alice, a strong-willed and somewhat wild young woman, who loved to do things that shocked the public, even when she lived in the White House. Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel Connor, Leslie 78071 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 659 N N - - - Miss Bridie emigrates to America in 1856 and chooses to bring a shovel, which proves to be a useful tool throughout her life. Missing from Haymarket Square Robinet, Harriette 51849 EN MG 4.4 4.0 F 29539 N N - - - Three children in Chicago in 1886 Gillem experience the Haymarket Riot in response to exploitative working conditions. Missing Grace: A Kit Mystery Jones, Elizabeth 139668 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 28496 N N - - - In the summer of 1935, twelve-year-old McDavid Kit Kittredge's dog, Grace, mysteriously vanishes, and Kit tries to figure out who took her and why. Missing! Capeci, Anne 85987 EN MG 4.1 3.0 F 21358 N N - - - During the 1920s, as Billy, Finn, and Dannie investigate a series of thefts in a railroad workers' camp, they also find themselves searching for Billy's missing cousin, nine-year-old Mim.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Mississippi Mud: Three Prairie Turner, Ann Warren 70406 EN MG 4.6 0.5 F 2490 N N - - - As their family travels on a wagon train Journals from Kentucky to Oregon, Amanda and her two brothers keep separate journals, and the journal entries show how they each see the same trip in a different way. Missouri Sargent, Daina 85367 EN LG 4.1 0.5 F 2052 N N - - - Matt and Liz travel through time to Hannibal, Missouri, and have the opportunity to ride a raft down the mighty Mississippi with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Molly Bannaky McGill, Alice 34596 EN LG 4.8 0.5 F 912 N N - - N This book relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave. Molly's Puppy Tale Tripp, Valerie 84340 EN MG 4.3 0.5 F 3400 N N - - - In 1945, ten-year-old Molly does not want to share her puppy, Bennett, with her brother but finds she might need to change her mind. The Moon over Star Aston, Dianna Hutts 126064 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 1061 N N - - - On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 flight of the "Eagle" and its Moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too. Moonrunner Thomason, Mark 128131 EN MG 4.1 7.0 F 50434 N N - - - In the 1890s, twelve-year-old Casey has just moved to Australia. He misses his home and his friends in Montana, but most of all, he misses the wild mustangs. When Casey discovers a herd of wild brumbies, he develops a bond with a stallion, Moonrunner. Mose the Fireman: The Legendary Metaxas, Eric 78509 EN LG 4.7 0.5 F 2748 N N - - - This book relates the tall tale adventures Firefighter of Mose Humphries, a nineteenth- century fireman in New York City.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Murder at Midnight Avi 131871 EN MG 4.3 5.0 F 38334 N N - - - Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight. Music for Alice Say, Allen 77549 EN MG 4.0 0.5 F 1393 N N - - - A Japanese American farmer describes her agricultural successes and setbacks as well as her never ending love of dance. Muti's Necklace: The Oldest Story Hawes, Louise 106569 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 1781 N N - - - Muti treasures the necklace her father in the World gave her so much that she risks the wrath of Egypt's pharaoh when it falls into the water. Based on an ancient Egyptian story. Mutiny's Daughter Rinaldi, Ann 76343 EN MG 4.1 6.0 F 39036 N N - - - This novel tells the story of half-Tahitian teenager Mary Christian, sent to the British Isles to be raised by the family of her father, the British ship BOUNTY's second in command and mutineer Fletcher Christian. My Anastasia Stewart, Sharon 73421 EN MG 4.2 8.0 F 56962 N N - - - This book is a touching and tragic historical tale about a friendship that grows between two young girls from entirely different worlds. My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Osborne, Mary Pope 40138 EN MG 4.3 2.0 F 11707 N N - - N During the days leading to the Battle of Diary Gettysburg, Virginia Dickens begins a diary. Gettysburg soon comes the center of the biggest battle of the Civil War; and Ginny wonders if her father and brother will make it home. My Canary Yellow Star Wiseman, Eva 58576 EN MG 4.6 8.0 F 52218 N N - - - Marta is a young Jewish girl in Budapest who suffers worse and worse conditions under Nazi rule until hope arrives in the form of a foreign man who risks his own life to save others.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description My Heart Is on the Ground: The Rinaldi, Ann 31191 EN MG 4.3 5.0 F 34190 N N - N N In the diary account of her life at a Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a government-run Pennsylvania boarding Sioux Girl school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people. My Lady, Kudlinski, Kathleen 106056 EN MG 4.8 9.0 F 62404 N N - - - Nuttagwon, daughter of a minor V. Pamunkey chief, is still a girl when Pocahontas's vision of peace between their people and the newly arrived English colonists bonds the two in a lifelong friendship as they work together to make the vision a reality. My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Durrant, Lynda 105612 EN MG 4.6 6.0 F 42044 N N - - - Enjoying the freedom afforded her while Hodgers, Union Soldier dressing as a boy to earn higher pay after emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the . My Travels with Capts. Lewis and McMullan, Kate 80685 EN MG 4.5 8.0 F 54725 N N - - - This book is a fictional journal Clark, by George Shannon recounting the travels--from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Ocean--of sixteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. My Vicksburg Rinaldi, Ann 130016 EN MG 4.1 5.0 F 34533 N N - - - During the , thirteen- year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war. Mysterious Journey: Amelia Wickham, Martha 52323 EN MG 4.6 0.5 F 2197 N N - - - While visiting the Amelia Earhart exhibit Earhart's Last Flight at the National Air and Space Museum, Lucy travels back in time and becomes the famous pilot in the cockpit of her last flight. Mystery at Chilkoot Pass Steiner, Barbara 58235 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 34446 N N - - - At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Alaska with her father, uncle, and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief. The plot contains violence.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Mystery of the Dark Tower Coleman, Evelyn 35820 EN MG 4.1 4.0 F 30528 N N - - - In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears. Mystery of the Silver Coins Johnson, Lois Walfrid 82564 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 36660 N N - - - In tenth-century Norway, Bree and her friend Lil, buoyed by their Christian faith, have escaped the Viking ship but are pursued by Mikkel. While in Ireland, Devin's anger about his sister's kidnapping prevents him from forgiving her captors.

The Mzungu Boy Mwangi, Meja 87587 EN MG 4.5 5.0 F 33084 N N - - - Set in the 1950s, this is a story about village life in Kenya as seen through a child's eyes. It was a time of growing violence that was about to change the structure of colonial Africa. Naming Liberty Yolen, Jane 122381 EN LG 4.8 0.5 F 3028 N N - - - In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the centennial of the United States. Neeluk: An Eskimo Boy in the Days Kittredge, Frances 59837 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 16488 N N - - - This story traces the life of Neeluk and of the Whaling Ships his family through one year in the 1880s in the Arctic land that would later become the State of Alaska. Nellie's Promise Tripp, Valerie 88628 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 13023 N N - - N Nellie O'Malley and her two sisters finally have a home with Samantha's family, but Uncle Mike is determined to find them and take them away.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Nelly in the Wilderness Cullen, Lynn 58205 EN MG 4.5 5.0 F 37440 N N - - - In the Indiana wilderness in 1821, twelve-year-old Nelly Vandorn and her older brother hold fast to their rough frontier ways when their father brings home a fancy new city wife not long after burying their mother. Nettie's Journey Dueck, Adele 103018 EN MG 4.5 6.0 F 40224 N N - - - When Nettie's family, along with many other Mennonites, makes the long journey out of eastern Europe to the new world, they come across hard times of famine and terror, the relief of escape from oppression, and moments of kindness and humanity. Newsgirl Ketchum, Liza 132650 EN MG 4.3 10.0 F 69714 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Amelia arrives in San Francisco with her mother and family in 1851 and dresses like a boy in the mostly male town, cutting her hair and wearing a cap to work as a newsboy selling Eastern newspapers. No Girls Allowed Kay, Alan N. 85832 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 33566 N N - - - In 1862, two young girls, one a member of an aid society that helps the wounded and the other who, disguised as a boy, is a soldier in the Union army, find themselves working together at the . No One Must Know Wiseman, Eva 82868 EN MG 4.3 6.0 F 39272 N N - - - It is 1960, and Alexandra's immigrant family is living the North American dream. But Alexandra's view of her parents, her friends, and the society in which she lives is turned upside down by her discovery that they are not Catholic, but Jewish. No Star Nights Smucker, Anna Egan 124814 EN LG 4.9 0.5 F 1871 N N - - - A young girl growing up in a steel mill town in the 1950s describes her childhood and how it was affected by the local industry.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Nothing Here but Stones: A Jewish Oswald, Nancy 82251 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 40546 N N - - - In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her Pioneer Story family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony. Nowhere to Turn Kay, Alan N. 85833 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 34260 N N - - - In 1862, having left his uncle's farm in Pennsylvania to join the Union Army, twelve-year-old Thomas experiences the bloody horror of the Battle of Antietam. Numbering All the Bones Rinaldi, Ann 59767 EN MG 4.2 5.0 F 33632 N N - - N Eulinda is left behind to deal with a cruel mistress, and a master who will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter. Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep Lendroth, Susan 125486 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 456 N N - - - In nineteenth-century New England, a young girl watches her baby brother learn to walk and talk while waiting for Papa's return from the sea after he joins the China trade and sails to foreign lands. Off to Fight Kay, Alan N. 85834 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 39975 N N - - - Just when twelve-year-old George Adams has begun to settle into life in Richmond, Virginia, the state secedes from the Union, and George joins the boys he has become friends with when they enlist to fight for the Confederacy. On a Canadian Day: Nine Story Arato, Rona 145462 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 27719 N N - - - This book looks at pivotal moments in Voyages Through History the history of Canada as experienced by nine fictional young people, including an aboriginal boy, a Vietnamese immigrant girl, and the son of a Dust Bowl farmer. On an American Day Volume 1: Arato, Rona 145944 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 33064 N N - - - Nine brief stories walk readers through Story Voyages through History 150 years of American history, such as 1750-1899 Valley Forge, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Gold Rush, the founding of the Perkins School for the Blind and Berea College, Hull House, and the Johnstown Flood.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description On Rough Seas Hull, Nancy L. 122586 EN MG 4.7 10.0 F 66941 N N - - - In Dover, England, in 1940, fourteen- year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort. On the Edge of Revolution Kent, Deborah 110356 EN MG 4.9 4.0 F 29675 N N - - - Life changes dramatically when tensions in the new colony begin to rise and Eliza's twin brother joins local farmers in armed resistance against their British rulers. Suddenly, Eliza finds herself examining her beliefs and loyalties. On the Trail of John Brown's Body Kay, Alan N. 85835 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 41195 N N - - - Two young cousins and their fathers become involved in events leading up to abolitionist John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. One-Handed Catch Auch, MJ 109088 EN MG 4.2 8.0 F 58908 N N - - - After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth- grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities. Orphan at My Door: The Home Little, Jean 63251 EN MG 4.5 7.0 F 48110 N N - - - Victoria Cope's family takes in a Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope Child, a sad and quiet girl named Mary Anna. Victoria soon discovers the reason for Mary Anna's silence - she was separated from her younger brother. Victoria vows to help Mary Anna find her brother. Out of the Ordinary Barone, Michelle M. 123207 EN MG 4.4 3.0 F 23272 N N - - - In early twentieth-century Phippsburg, Colorado, a young girl named Julia, who goes to school with the town bullies, whose father runs the local coal mine, attempts to prevent a disaster at the local mine like the one that struck miners in nearby Ludlow.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Outside In Young, Karen 58910 EN MG 4.3 7.0 F 50345 N N - - - In 1968, as the Vietnam War continues Romano and violence erupts throughout America, twelve-year-old Chérie tries to understand the changing nature of her relationship with the two teenage brothers across the street, as well as the unpredictable world. Pacific Odyssey to California, 1905 Lawlor, Laurie 52602 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 41654 N N - - - Eleven-year-old Su-Na, a Korean immigrant, and her family move to Hawaii and then to California, hopeful that life on the mainland will be everything they have imagined. Pappy's Handkerchief Scillian, Devin 122634 EN LG 4.9 1.0 F 3568 N N - - - In 1889, young Moses and his family sell everything they own and leave their Baltimore, Maryland, home to join many other settlers, black and white, in a race to claim land in the newly opened territory of Oklahoma. The Peace Bell Preus, Margi 126781 EN LG 4.1 0.5 F 997 N N - - - Yoko's grandmother tells how the bell in their town that would ring on New Year's Eve is given up during the war for scrap metal, finds its way back to their village, and becomes known as the Peace Bell. Peace, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Keep, Linda Lowery 86281 EN MG 4.4 1.0 F 8328 N N - - - In 1964, Barbie records in her diary her efforts to prove her talent as a magazine photographer by taking pictures of models wearing the latest fashions, of the London music scene, and of a civil rights event in Washington, D.C. Penelope: An Irish Penny McKay, Sharon E. 72718 EN MG 4.5 2.0 F 14991 N N - - - Aunt Colleen is worried about her brother, Robert, who is serving in France and though Penny's also worried for Uncle Robert, she's facing her own problems. She's begun school at a private academy, where the girls tease her about her poor Irish father.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Penelope: Christmas Reunion McKay, Sharon E. 83722 EN MG 4.4 2.0 F 16593 N N - - - Penelope and her grandmother are looking forward to being reunited with Penny's father and sisters. But when Penny learns that her father wants to take her and her sisters back to Halifax with him, she has to make a difficult decision. The Phantom of the Opera: Retold Namm, Diane 121595 EN MG 4.0 2.0 F 16484 N N - - - This abridged edition is a retelling of the from the Gaston Leroux Original tale of a disfigured musical genius who lives under the Paris Opera House and uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer. Phantoms in the Snow Duble, Kathleen 142264 EN MG 4.7 8.0 F 52358 N N - - - In 1944, fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, Benner recently orphaned, is sent to live at Camp Hale, Colorado, with an uncle he has never met, and there he finds his pacifist views put to the test. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of McKissack, Patricia 17636 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 37516 N N - - N In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house Clotee, a Slave Girl C. slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom. Pippo the Fool Fern, Tracey E. 128142 EN LG 4.7 0.5 F 1845 N N - - - In fifteenth-century Florence, Italy, a contest is held to design a magnificent dome for the town's cathedral, but when Pippo the Fool enters the contest, he must win over the skeptical judges. Play, Louis, Play! The True Story of Weinstein, Muriel 141388 EN LG 4.7 1.0 F 9164 N N - - - The childhood of Louis Armstrong was a Boy and His Horn Harris as fascinating as the great musician himself, and this chapter book biography tells it from the point of view of Louis's closest companion throughout his youth, his horn. The Plucker: An Illustrated Novel Brom 103500 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 32335 N N - - - In a shadowy land of make-believe, Jack is thrust into the role of defending Thomas, the child who abandoned him, from a malevolent spirit known as the Plucker.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Ellis, Sarah 63232 EN MG 4.7 6.0 F 40675 N N - - - Expecting to make their fortunes on Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall Uncle Alf's ranch, the Weatheralls are shocked to find themselves living in a sod hut on a rented farm. Ivy is determined to taste life to the fullest, whatever hardships she may encounter. Puppet Wiseman, Eva 128559 EN MG 4.6 8.0 F 52581 N N - - - Based on one of the last blood libel trials of the nineteenth century, this book is the dramatic retelling of a horrific chapter in Jewish history as told through the eyes of an impoverished girl faced with a terrible decision. Quake! Cottonwood, Joe 14878 EN MG 4.0 4.0 F 27527 N N - N N Franny's day will turn out to be even more upsetting than she expected because the earth beneath her doesn't plan to stay still. Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, Karwoski, Gail 78552 EN MG 4.7 6.0 F 38932 N N - - - This book tells the story of the 1906 San 1906 Langer Francisco earthquake as seen through the eyes of Jacob, a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy who lives in a boardinghouse with his father and younger sister. Rachel: Certificate of Freedom Kositsky, Lynn 72722 EN MG 4.9 2.0 F 11228 N N - - - On the pretense of checking their certificates of freedom, a white delisted soldier spirits Rachel and her mother away from their home and sells them back into servitude. Determined to reclaim her freedom and her home, Rachel plots her escape. Rachel: The Maybe House Kositsky, Lynne 62226 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 11999 N N - - - Rachel's wish for a real house to call her own is granted, thanks to Titan's hard work. But the atmosphere in Nova Scotia is an intolerant one, as de-listed white soldiers, unable to find work, begin to look with resentment upon their black neighbours.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Racing Home Dueck, Adele 145464 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 44314 N N - - - In 1908, Erik does not want to leave his grandfather's farm in Norway or the of his father, but his mother's new husband, Rolf, insists the family move to Canada, where they can have a farm of their own. Raiders from the Sea Johnson, Lois Walfrid 82566 EN MG 4.5 5.0 F 36103 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old Bree asks God for protection when she and her brother Devin are captured and taken from their home on the Irish coast by Viking raiders in the late tenth century. Raleigh's Page Armstrong, Alan 117754 EN MG 4.7 8.0 F 54941 N N - - - In the late sixteenth century, eleven- year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the Indians. Rebecca Matas, Carol 83686 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 37444 N N - - - Rebecca discovers that fate can change your life in an instant--the night that fire destroys the farm where she lives in western Canada with her large extended Jewish family. Rebecca and Ana Greene, Jacqueline 132092 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 12511 N N - - - Rebecca is excited to have her cousin Dembar Ana from Russia living with her family in New York City, but she fears that Ana's poor English-speaking skills will ruin her presentation at school. Book #2 Rebecca and the Movies Greene, Jacqueline 132093 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 12100 N N - - - Rebecca is invited to her cousin Max's Dembar movie studio for her tenth birthday, but her parents' disapproval of actors and movies may prevent her from taking advantage of a golden opportunity. Book #4

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Rebecca to the Rescue Greene, Jacqueline 132094 EN MG 4.8 2.0 F 10581 N N - - - Rebecca and Ana have fun at Coney Dembar Island, but Rebecca's big brother dampens the fun. When he and Ana's brothers laugh at the girls, they go off on their own, but now Ana is missing and Rebecca won't forgive herself if anything happens to Ana. Book #5 Rebekah in Danger: Peril at Reece, Colleen L. 85156 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 30594 N N - - - Freezing weather, lack of food, and Plymouth Colony sickness make the first winter at Plymouth Colony a difficult and dangerous time for Rebekah and her family. Rebekkah's Journey: A WWII Burg, Ann E. 110002 EN LG 4.4 0.5 F 3058 N N - - - After eluding capture by the Nazis, Refugee Story seven-year-old Rebekkah and her mother are brought from Italy to the United States to begin a new life. Red, White, and Blue Jeans Keep, Linda Lowery 86282 EN MG 4.9 1.0 F 7379 N N - - - In 1976, Barbie records in her diary the preparations she, her sisters, and their entire town are making to celebrate America's 200th birthday, including a disco dance, a parade, and a play, as well as other Bicentennial events they witness. Regina Silsby's Secret War Brodeur, Tom 86188 EN MG 4.9 8.0 F 56774 N N - - - The daughter of a wealthy ship owner uses the superstitions of the day to divert the British forces and support the Sons of Liberty following the Boston Tea Party. Remember as You Pass Me By Pérez, L. King 123008 EN MG 4.2 5.0 F 35263 N N - - - In Texas in the mid-1950s, twelve-year- old Silvy tries to make sense of her parents' problems, a Supreme Court ruling that will integrate her school, the prejudice of her family and friends, as well as her own behavior, which always seems to be wrong.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Remember Me: Tomah Joseph's Soctomah, Donald 130863 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 1973 N N - - - Spending his childhood summers on Gift to Franklin Roosevelt Campobello Island, young Franklin Delano Roosevelt learns how to canoe from Tomah Joseph, a former chief of his tribe, who also teaches Franklin about the Passamaquoddy culture. The coauthor is Jean Flahive. Resistance Jungman, Ann 103471 EN MG 4.0 1.0 F 7260 N N - - - In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, Jan and Elli are ashamed that their fathers work for the Nazis, and they try to find a way to help the Dutch underground resistance. The Return of Gabriel Armistead, John 67177 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 43416 N N - - - In the summer of 1964, a thirteen-year- old white boy, whose best friend is black, is caught in the middle when civil rights workers and Ku Klux Klan members clash in a small town near Tupelo, Mississippi. Rex Zero and the End of the World Wynne-Jones, Tim 112913 EN MG 4.1 6.0 F 39807 N N - - - In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his family, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world. Riding Freedom Ryan, Pam Muñoz 27747 EN MG 4.5 3.0 F 20041 N N - N N Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst runs away from an orphanage, poses as a boy, moves to California, and fools everyone by her appearance. Riding the Flume Pfitsch, Patricia 61327 EN MG 4.9 7.0 F 48322 N N - - N In 1894, fifteen-year-old Francie Curtis determines to fight the lumbermen and protect the largest sequoia tree ever seen, which had been given to her sister just before her death six years earlier. Rip Van Winkle Irving, Washngton 78513 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 2818 N N - - - A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world. This book was adapted and illustrated by Rick Meyerowitz.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Risky Chance Hart, Alison 146257 EN MG 4.2 2.0 F 16417 N N - - - In the mid-to-late 1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome. Book #7 The Rocket Leonetti, Mike 135560 EN LG 4.1 0.5 F 2174 N N - - - Andre loves to play hockey but is tired of always being compared to his big brother, until his father takes him to a game to see the Montreal Canadiens and he sits next to the brother of their star player. Rodzina Cushman, Karen 68142 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 41138 N N - - N A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery. Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Miller, Susan Martins 108148 EN MG 4.2 5.0 F 34820 N N - - - Rosa Sanchez's parents took a chance Immigrants in the Dust Bowl Years on their future by emigrating from Mexico to the United States. Now, the ten-year-old takes a chance of her own which is to achieve an education. But she learns it is not easy in 1935 during the "Dust Bowl." Rose's Story Tamar, Erika 78608 EN MG 4.2 5.0 F 33331 N N - - - In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, fourteen-year-old Rose sees no value in her mother's feminist views until she tries to enter a horse-riding competition. Book #2. Rosemary and the Island Treasure Robertson, Barbara 56484 EN MG 4.2 2.0 F 14201 N N - - - Magically transported back in time to 1947, ten-year-old Rosemary Rita searches for buried treasure with her grandmother, also age ten, on the island of Green Turtle Cay.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Rosemary at Sea Robertson, Barbara 56485 EN MG 4.6 2.0 F 14351 N N - - - Magically transported back in time to 1919, ten-year-old Rosemary Rita shares an adventure with her great- grandmother aboard the luxury ocean liner Mauretania. Rosemary in Paris Robertson, Barbara 56486 EN MG 4.2 1.0 F 9780 N N - - - Magically transported back in time to 1889, ten-year-old Rosemary Rita meets her great-great-grandmother Gracie, also age ten, and together with a friend they set out to catch the boy who steals Gracie's locket. Rosemary Meets Rosemarie Robertson, Barbara 56487 EN MG 4.5 2.0 F 12878 N N - - - For her tenth birthday, Rosemary Rita's grandmother Mimi sends her a magical hourglass, which takes Rosemary Rita back to 1870 in Germany to meet Mimi's great-grandmother and help her decode a mysterious postcard. Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by Me! Walvoord, Linda 80301 EN MG 4.1 1.0 F 6033 N N - - - In 1848, Rosetta, the nine-year-old daughter of abolitionist , becomes the only Black student at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary in Rochester, New York, and while the students are pleased she is there, the faculty is not. Rosie in New York City: Gotcha! Matas, Carol 71117 EN MG 4.1 3.0 F 24463 N N - - - When Mama falls ill and Papa invests all the family's money in a new business, eleven-year-old Rosie Lepidus must go to work in a garment factory and soon gets involved in union activities. Rudy Rides the Rails: A Mackall, Dandi Daley 115855 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 2131 N N - - - In 1932, during the Depression in Ohio, Depression Era Story thirteen-year-old Rudy, determined to help his family weather the hard times, hops a train going west to California and experiences the hobo life.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Runaway Friend: A Kirsten Ernst, Kathleen 121379 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 26808 N N - - - Kirsten's been living on the Minnesota Mystery frontier for only a few weeks when her neighbor and friend, Erik, disappears. He promised to help the Larsons at harvest time and owes Uncle Olav money. Everyone thinks he's run out on his promises, except Kirsten. The Runes of Isle Royale Panagopoulos, Janie 81735 EN MG 4.7 3.0 F 20398 N N - - - Allie and Shoo Spywell, visiting Isle Lynn Royale with their archaeologist father, embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure when they are confronted by Bloodaxe, a Viking called back through time by the lighthouse beam, who insists they know the location. Ruth and the Green Book Ramsey, Calvin 138160 EN LG 4.6 0.5 F 1881 N N - - - When Ruth and her parents take a Alexander motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called THE NEGRO MOTORIST GREEN BOOK to find places that will serve them. Saara's Passage Autio, Karen 131171 EN MG 4.8 8.0 F 54940 N N - - - Saara is trying hard to put her horrible experience aboard the doomed "Empress of Ireland" behind her, but nightmares and unanswerable questions continue to disturb her. Sacagawea's Strength Deutsch, Stacia 106678 EN LG 4.6 2.0 F 16511 N N - - - Abigail and her friends have to convince Sacagawea not to give up on her dream, but they don't know what her dream is, and they know that explorers Lewis and Clark mapped a route leading out West with her help. The coauthor is Rhody Cohon. Book #5 Sahwira: An African Friendship Marsden, Carolyn 129886 EN MG 4.6 6.0 F 37876 N N - - - The strong friendship between two boys, one black and one white, who live on a mission in Rhodesia, begins to unravel as protests against white colonial rule intensify in 1964. The coauthor is Philip Merlin Matzigkeit.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Samantha's Special Talent Buckey, Sarah 84341 EN MG 4.5 0.5 F 3356 N N - - - Samantha organizes a talent show to Masters support the library but wonders what her special talent is. Sarah's Ground Rinaldi, Ann 75662 EN MG 4.7 6.0 F 38791 N N - - - In 1861, Sarah Tracy, from New York state, comes to work at , the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband. Sarah's New World: The Mayflower Reece, Colleen L. 85157 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 29538 N N - - - Sarah has lived in Holland her entire life Adventure but that's about to change. Her parents are taking her and her brother, John, on a journey to America, the New World, with plans to stay permanently. Saving Grace Cummings, Priscilla 68682 EN MG 4.9 8.0 F 56129 N N - - N When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to a mission, Grace wonders what will become of her sick older brother, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-work father. Saving the Liberty Bell McDonald, Megan 88163 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 1660 N N - - - Based on a true story, this book is about a boy who was in the city of Philadelphia in 1777 and was lucky enough to play a role in the American Revolution. Saving Zasha Barrow, Randi 141650 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 38346 N N - - - In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while Mikhail's classmate Katia strives to learn his secret. Scared Sarah Downie, Mary Alice 61992 EN MG 4.2 1.0 F 6050 N N - - - Living in the wilds of Upper Canada in 1836, Sarah is afraid of everything. She visits the Ojibwa encampment, where she becomes friends with the chief's son and learns of his medicine bag, full of magic for bravery and protection.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The School at Crooked Creek Lawlor, Laurie 77709 EN MG 4.0 2.0 F 10912 N N - - - Beansie dreads his first day of school, but his resilience surprises everyone. The Search for Belle Prater White, Ruth 86519 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 34504 N N - - N In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way. Second Fiddle Parry, Rosanne 143246 EN MG 4.9 8.0 F 53681 N N - - - Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three eighth-grade girls living on an American military base with their families in Berlin try to save a Soviet soldier, who has been beaten and left for dead, by smuggling him to Paris. Second Watch Autio, Karen 106725 EN MG 4.5 6.0 F 40175 N N - - - Eleven-year-old Saara, a Finnish immigrant, describes in fact-based detail, her challenging time at home in northwestern Ontario and aboard the great "Empress of Ireland," which sank in the thick St. Lawrence River fog on May 29, 1914. Secret of the Night Ponies Harlow, Joan Hiatt 133757 EN MG 4.3 8.0 F 58126 N N - - - In 1965 Newfoundland, thirteen-year-old Jessie's brave and impulsive nature leads her to commit a variety of daring acts, including rescuing a herd of wild ponies and kidnapping a poor orphan girl who is being mistreated by her guardians. The Secret Shelter LeFaucheur, Sandi 86451 EN MG 4.3 7.0 F 46705 N N - - - Exciting, historically authentic time travel takes three London twelve-year-olds from the present to the 1940's and bomb-torn WW II England. The Secret Shofar of Barcelona Greene, Jacqueline 134403 EN LG 4.4 0.5 F 1295 N N - - - Musician Don Fernando longs to hear Dembar the sounds of the shofar on the High Holidays, but like the other secret Jews in Inquisition Spain, he must hide his religion.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Secret Signs Guest, Jacqueline 110020 EN MG 4.9 3.0 F 20432 N N - - - During the Depression, Henry Dafoe makes his way across the prairies, guided only by an old hobo and a series of secret signs. The Secret War: A Second World Atkins, Jill 147072 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 30402 N N - - - In 1939, Sophie becomes a messenger War Girl's Diary 1939-1940 for a resistance group in northern France. But as the Germans overwhelm the British forces on the French coast, Sophie finds herself more deeply involved with the resistance and in a plan to save a Scottish soldier. Secrets at Camp Nokomis: A Greene, Jacqueline 139670 EN MG 4.9 4.0 F 27332 N N - - - When Rebecca attends summer camp Rebecca Mystery Dembar in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive. Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Ernst, Kathleen 106188 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 26935 N N - - - Josefina has heard tales and legends all Mystery her life: rumors of gold and silver buried in the hills and even tales of a ghostly Weeping Woman who haunts the countryside. But she never imagined that such stories might be true. The Serpent Came to Gloucester Anderson, M.T. 89015 EN LG 4.4 0.5 F 1183 N N - - - Rhyming text tells of a sea serpent that plays off the coast of Massachusetts the summer of 1817 and is hunted upon its return the next year. Shackleton's Stowaway McKernan, Victoria 86105 EN MG 4.8 12.0 F 81202 N N - - - This book is a fictionalized account of the adventures of Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Shadow Hunt Langrish, Katherine 137298 EN MG 4.3 10.0 F 71913 N N - - - Wolf rescues a child on Devil's Edge and takes her to a castle hoping to win the favor of its ruler. There he strikes up a friendship with Nest. Dark forces are conspiring against Wolf and Nest, and a sinister enemy is looming closer than they realize. Shadows of Disaster Beveridge, Cathy 79349 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 41946 N N - - - Jolene's parents think Gramps is losing touch with reality. But after Jolene travels through a time crease with Gramps, to the time of the Frank Slide disaster, she gains a better understanding of both her family and history. Shadows on Society Hill: An Addy Coleman, Evelyn 118250 EN MG 4.1 4.0 F 26938 N N - - - When her family moves to Mystery Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets, including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy Bildner, Phil 57764 EN LG 4.8 0.5 F 2533 N N - - N Shoeless Joe Jackson, said by some to be the greatest baseball player ever, goes into a hitting slump just before he is to start his minor league career, so he asks his friend to make him a special bat to help him hit. The Shrouding Woman Ellsworth, Loretta 58690 EN MG 4.9 3.0 F 22080 N N - - - When her Aunt Flo comes to help care for eleven-year-old Evie and her younger sister after their mother's death, Evie want nothing to do with her and she is especially uncomfortable with her aunt's calling to help prepare bodies for burial. The Silver Cup Leeds, Constance 114109 EN MG 4.7 6.0 F 43191 N N - - - In 1096, Anna, a German Catholic girl, and Leah, a German Jewish girl, strike up a remarkable friendship and make surprising discoveries about each other.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Simon's Escape: A Story of the Pryor, Bonnie 139167 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 34476 N N - - - Simon, a young Polish Jew, and his Holocaust family are forced by Nazis to leave their home for the filth and hunger of the Warsaw ghetto. When his family is all taken away, he escapes to fight for survival in the countryside. Small Beauties: The Journey of Woodruff, Elvira 109629 EN LG 4.6 0.5 F 1969 N N - - - Darcy Heart O'Hara, a young Irish girl Darcy Heart O'Hara who neglects her chores to observe the beauties of nature and everyday life, shares "family memories" with her homesick parents and siblings after the O'Haras are forced to emigrate to America in the 1840s. Smoking Mirror: An Encounter with Rees, Douglas 85684 EN MG 4.1 6.0 F 41903 N N - - - In Tahiti in the 1890s, sixteen-year-old Paul Gauguin Joe, a native Californian and a sailor, is determined to avenge the death of his best friend at the hands of a gun smuggler known as the White Wolf, and finds an unlikely ally in the artist, Paul Gauguin. The Smuggler's Treasure Buckey, Sarah 34691 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 34049 N N - - - Sent to live with relatives in New Masters Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven- year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father. This is from the History Mysteries series. So Far from Home: The Diary of Denenberg, Barry 17641 EN MG 4.4 3.0 F 21309 N N - - N In the diary account of her journey from Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year- old Mary reveals a great longing for her family. Someday Koller, Jackie French 69321 EN MG 4.3 7.0 F 49688 N N - - - In 1938, fourteen-year-old Celie must cope with leaving her Enfield, Massachusetts, home and her life-long friend, Chubby, as the day approaches when the Swift River Valley will be flooded to create a reservoir for Boston.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Son of the Hounds Sutherland, Robert 84353 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 31880 N N - - - This story, based on true events from the War of 1812, follows Jimmy Cameron as he helps the British soldiers take on the Yankees. Sonny's House of Spies Lyon, George Ella 78700 EN MG 4.1 8.0 F 54297 N N - - - In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper. Sparks Fly Upward Matas, Carol 58688 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 39066 N N - - N In 1910, when a family of Russian Jews moves from Saskatchewan to Winnipeg, Canada, twelve-year-old Rebecca must live with Christians temporarily and struggles with anti-Semitism, confusion about God, and changing relationships with family and friends. The Spirit and Gilly Bucket Dahlberg, Maurine F. 65437 EN MG 4.7 8.0 F 51893 N N - - - In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold, she is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befriends one of the slave girls, learns about the Underground Railroad, and discovers that people are not always as they seem. The Spirit Catchers: An Encounter Kudlinski, Kathleen 85686 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 41004 N N - - - During the Great Depression, fifteen- with Georgia O'Keeffe V. year-old Parker finds himself homeless and traveling across New Mexico's desert, when a shepherd leads him to the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, who teaches him photography and gives him a new perspective on life. Spitting Image Crum, Shutta 69017 EN MG 4.5 8.0 F 53409 N N - - - In the small town of Baylor, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey and her friends confront some of life's questions during their summer vacation in the late 1960s.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description A Spy on the Home Front: A Molly Hart, Alison 88623 EN MG 4.2 3.0 F 23125 N N - - - During a visit to her grandparents' Mystery Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti- American propaganda. Spy! Myers, Anna 127743 EN MG 4.8 8.0 F 53661 N N - - - In 1774, twelve-year-old Jonah becomes a pupil of Nathan Hale, who inspires him to question his beliefs about the impending revolution, and two years later, Jonah makes a decision that leads to Nathan's execution. Star in the Storm Harlow, Joan Hiatt 36529 EN MG 4.4 4.0 F 24850 N N - - N In 1912, fearing for the safety of her beloved Newfoundland dog Sirius because of a new law outlawing non- sheepherding dogs in her Newfoundland village, twelve-year-old Maggie tries to save him by keeping him hidden. Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend McKissack, Patricia 126656 EN LG 4.2 0.5 F 2364 N N - - - As a young African American girl pieces Quilt C. her first quilt together, the history of her family, community, and the struggle for justice and freedom in Gee's Bend, Alabama, unfolds. Stopping to Home Wait, Lea 54686 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 29895 N N - - N In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abbie and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine. Together, they discover a way Widow Chase can support them all. Storyteller Giff, Patricia Reilly 139120 EN MG 4.2 4.0 F 30517 N N - - - Forced to spend months at an aunt's house, Elizabeth feels a connection to her ancestor Zee, whose picture hangs on the wall and who reveals her story of hardships during the Revolutionary War as Elizabeth comes to terms with her own troubles.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Summer on the Run Belgue, Nancy 87606 EN MG 4.0 3.0 F 24770 N N - - - The year is 1931, and thirteen-year-old Douglas has gotten himself mixed up with local rumrunners who carry liquor across the Detroit River from Windsor into the United States. The Sweetwater Run: The Story of Glass, Andrew 34957 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 1910 N N - - - This is the story of Buffalo Bill and his Buffalo Bill Cody and the Pony break to deliver the big news of the U.S. Express presidential election. Sydney Clair's Season of Change: Davis, Pam 135513 EN MG 4.2 2.0 F 14569 N N - - - In the 1960s, fourth-grader Sydney Clair A Friendship Story grows increasingly troubled by the power of prejudice when, after rebuffing the friendship of a black girl in her school because of peer pressure, she herself is rebuffed by her best friend. Take Me with You Marsden, Carolyn 136650 EN MG 4.3 4.0 F 25834 N N - - - Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend, Pina, want to be adopted but fear being separated. The plot contains profanity and violence. Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Rinaldi, Ann 62570 EN MG 4.1 7.0 F 47302 N N - - N After serving loyally Judge, George Washington's for twenty years, Oney Judge realizes Runaway Slave that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom. Tales of Charles Dickens Owens, L.L. 82945 EN MG 4.1 2.0 F 14135 N N - - - This book is an adaptation of a selection of the author's classic works. The Tangled Web: A Julie Mystery Reiss, Kathryn 129073 EN MG 4.6 4.0 F 24679 N N - - - In 1977 San Francisco, Julie wants to be just like her new friend Carla, until she discovers that Carla is either in big danger or telling big lies. Tchaikovsky Discovers America Kalman, Esther 21801 EN MG 4.5 0.5 F 3217 N N - - - Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Tea with an Old Dragon: The Story Yolen, Jane 25874 EN LG 4.2 0.5 F 2084 N N - - - In Hatfield, Massachusetts, in 1867, five of Sophia Smith, Founder of Smith -year-old Louisa determines to find the College old dragon she has heard about, but instead encounters, and has tea with, Sophia Smith, an elderly woman with pronounced views on the education of girls. The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy Peck, Richard 83176 EN MG 4.7 6.0 F 38642 N N - - N In rural Indiana, in 1904, fifteen-year-old in Three Parts Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat-threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching of his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies." Teddy's Cattle Drive: A Story from Simmons, Marc 106426 EN MG 4.0 1.0 F 3791 N N - - N Eleven-year-old Teddy is participating in History his first cattle drive and must prove himself to earn respect and win his spurs. Tenth Avenue Cowboy High, Linda Oatman 124100 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 697 N N - - - In 1910, when his family moves to New York City from out West, Ben misses the cowboys and the prairies, but after he learns that there are cowboys in the city, he begins to feel more at home. Texas Rebel Kerr, Rita 5841 EN MG 4.7 3.0 F 19294 N N - - - A fictionalized biography of Churchill Roberts, a second-generation Texan who joined the 13th Calvary Battalion during the Civil War and fought in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Thanks to Josefina Tripp, Valerie 84343 EN MG 4.6 1.0 F 3651 N N - - - In 1824 New Mexico, Josefina and her sisters argue as they weave, until Josefina thinks of a way to make their work more fun. Thar She Blows! Whaling in the Kassirer, Sue 52329 EN MG 4.3 0.5 F 2007 N N - - - While visiting a whaling exhibit at the 1860s Museum of Natural History, Emma suddenly finds herself transported back in time to a nineteenth century whaling ship.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description That Book Woman Henson, Heather 124697 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 1184 N N - - - A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents. Thin Wood Walls Patneaude, David 82176 EN MG 4.3 8.0 F 59056 N N - - - When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hanada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the to fight in the war. Throwing Stones Collier, Kristi 109095 EN MG 4.0 6.0 F 45696 N N - - - In 1923, in Pierre, Indiana, fourteen-year -old Andy realizes a dream when he makes the high school basketball team, but when an accident keeps him from playing, he ventures into journalism and begins to understand the meaning of sportsmanship. The Time Machine: Retold from the Sasaki, Chris 121596 EN MG 4.9 3.0 F 18938 N N - - - This abridged edition is a retelling of the H.G. Wells Original novel about the scientist who invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks. Timmerman Was Here Sydor, Colleen 133922 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 979 N N - - - A young girl resents Timmerman, the man who moved into her grandfather's old room, until she recognizes his kindness, but rumors about Timmerman's antics at night cause the girl to doubt her new friend. To a Foreign Shore Jordan, Shirley 82222 EN MG 4.7 2.0 F 15129 N N - - - Kanunu and others had been sold to Captain Bouchard and loaded upon his ship. He wondered what was ahead of them.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description To Kill a Queen Wilding, Valerie 141046 EN MG 4.6 5.0 F 31073 N N - - - Queen Elizabeth's enemies plot to kill her and place Mary Queen of Scots on the throne. While Kitty's father works on secret projects for Elizabeth, Mary's supporters edge closer and Kitty fears they will all be thrown into the Tower. Tom, Maker of Chairs Clements, Andrew 107285 EN LG 4.1 0.5 F 1030 N N - - - A bad-tempered king has a change of heart about the chairs in his kingdom. Traders in Time Panagopoulos, Janie 81737 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 34994 N N - - - This book portrays people involved in Lynn the fur trade and brings to life the sights, smells, and drama taking place along the shores of Lake Michigan and at Fort Mackinac in the late 1700s. The Train Jumper Brown, Don 119014 EN MG 4.3 4.0 F 27862 N N - - - Jumping freight trains during the Great Depression leads fourteen-year-old Collie to a friendship with men and boys on their way to "somewhere else." Train to Midnight Panagopoulos, Janie 81738 EN MG 4.5 5.0 F 33490 N N - - - Malaika and her brother, Sammy, are Lynn swept back into the past where they find themselves traveling the Underground Railroad in an attempt to escape slavery and reach safety in Canada. Trouble at Fort La Pointe Ernst, Kathleen 50166 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 34444 N N - - - Suzette hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family. Trouble Don't Last Pearsall, Shelley 61331 EN MG 4.8 8.0 F 53660 N N - - N Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. The Trouble with May Amelia Holm, Jennifer L. 142177 EN MG 4.0 5.0 F 38244 N N - - - A twelve-year-old Finnish American girl growing up on a farm on the Nasel River in 1900 tries to prove to her father that girls are not useless. The plot contains violence.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Troubles for Cécile Patrick, Denise Lewis 147379 EN MG 4.5 2.0 F 12651 N N - - - An affluent black family fights against illness and death when a terrible outbreak of yellow fever strikes New Orleans in the summer of 1853. Tuckers' Gold Owens, L.L. 65939 EN MG 4.4 3.0 F 19065 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Penelope Tucker is not happy when her family decides to head out West. The journey on the Oregon- California trail is difficult. When they finally reach their destination, Penelope finds it not to her liking. The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Lawrence, Caroline 86520 EN MG 4.2 6.0 F 41374 N N - - - When a Roman widow shows unusual Gemina interest in Flavia's father, Flavia decides to discover Cartila's true motives by performing twelve tasks, just like the Greek hero Hercules. Book #6 Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses Robinet, Harriette 67178 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 38121 N N - - - On the way to California with their kind Gillem new master, thirteen-year-old Jacob, his mother, and other slaves are caught up in adventures that include trying to stop a plot to help the South secede from the Union. Twenty-One Elephants and Still Prince, April Jones 100633 EN LG 4.3 0.5 F 595 N N - - - Upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, Standing: A Story of P.T. Barnum P.T. Barnum and his twenty-one and the Brooklyn Bridge elephants parade across to prove to everyone that the bridge is safe. Two Bad Pilgrims Lasky, Kathryn 131850 EN LG 4.0 0.5 F 3101 N N - - - Brothers Francis and Johnny Billington take issue with history's account of their troublemaking ways aboard the "Mayflower" and in the New World as they tell their side of the story to Standish Brewster, professor of Pilgrimology at Plimouth University. Under Copp's Hill Ayres, Katherine 50167 EN MG 4.1 5.0 F 34459 N N - - - In 1908, Innie joins the library club at a settlement house that serves immigrant families, but when things began to disappear, Innie is under suspicion.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Under One Flag: A Year at Rohwer Parkhurst, Liz Smith 87862 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 3274 N N - - - Based on a true story, Jeff, the son of an administrator at the War Relocation Center in Rohwer, Arkansas, befriends George, a young Japanese American who is forced to live in the camp with his family after his father is accused of being a spy. Underground Ferris, Jean 118323 EN MG 4.6 6.0 F 39046 N N - - - In 1839, Charlotte Brown is sold north to Kentucky, where she becomes a maid at Mammoth Cave Hotel, falls in love with one of the tour guides there, and gets involved in the Underground Railroad. An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Rinaldi, Ann 110890 EN MG 4.6 8.0 F 52229 N N - - - This book relates the lives of Mary Todd Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia Keckley family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately and then become best friends when Mary's dream of living in the White House comes true. The Victory Garden Kochenderfer, Lee 58219 EN MG 4.1 5.0 F 36486 N N - - N Hoping to contribute to the war effort during World War II, eleven-year-old Teresa organizes her friends to care for an ill neighbor's victory garden. Virginia Bound Butler, Amy 69077 EN MG 4.4 5.0 F 36525 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old orphaned beggar Rob Brackett is kidnapped from the streets of London and taken to the New World for a cruel tobacco farmer master, who also owns a Pamunkey Native American girl named Mattoume. Voices of Clay Borregaard, T. 107236 EN LG 4.8 0.5 F 3145 N N - - - An Anasazi potter looks forward to the day she and her village leave their cliff homes in southwestern Colorado and move to more fertile land.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Volume 1: Kidnapped! Thomas, Roy 139401 EN MG 4.0 0.5 F 2653 N N - - - Young David Balfour's parents are dead. He learns that his father's brother, Ebenezer, may have killed Alexander to take the estate. It appears Ebenezer wants David out of the way and will go to any length, perhaps even murder. Volume 2: I Go to Sea Thomas, Roy 139402 EN MG 4.1 0.5 F 2587 N N - - - At the order of his uncle, David Balfour has been kidnapped aboard the "Covenant" and reluctantly accepts the meager life of a cabin boy. When Alan Stewart is taken aboard, David overhears a plot to kill Stewart and casts his lot with the stranger. Volume 3: The Loss of the Brig Thomas, Roy 139403 EN MG 4.9 0.5 F 2655 N N - - - David Balfour and his companion Alan Stewart have survived the attack of the "Covenant" and now control the ship. After the reluctant captain agrees to take Stewart to Linnhe Loch, the ship strikes a reef and young David is thrown overboard. Volume 4: Death in the Forest Thomas, Roy 139404 EN MG 4.3 0.5 F 2574 N N - - - Having escaped from the "Covenant," David Balfour reaches Scotland with the man he aided, Alan Breck Stewart. But their troubles are just beginning as the duo is pursued by the infamous Red Fox. Volume 5: The End of the Quest Thomas, Roy 139405 EN MG 4.8 0.5 F 2485 N N - - - David and Alan have found shelter at the cottage of Duncan Dhu of the Maclarens so David can recover from his illness. Robin Oig, son of the notorious Rob Roy, arrives, bringing an old quarrel with him. Voyage of Ice Torrey, Michele 79072 EN MG 4.6 7.0 F 46153 N N - - - In 1849, fifteen-year-old Nick and his older brother, longing to be whalers, sign on as hands on the whaling ship "Sea Hawk," and find that the journey is full of hardship and unexpected dangers.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Voyage to the Pharos Gauch, Sarah 131468 EN LG 4.5 0.5 F 2087 N N - - - A young boy in ancient times goes on an adventure-filled boat trip to the famous Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt. The Voyageur's Paddle Wargin, Kathy-jo 115791 EN LG 4.9 0.5 F 1448 N N - - - This book follows the yearly cycle of the voyageur Edouard as he travels to Grand Portage, trading furs for goods that he uses to purchase more furs from the native villages during the winter months. Walk Across the Sea Fletcher, Susan 55033 EN MG 4.3 5.0 F 37897 N N - - N In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, Eliza defies the townspeople and her father to help a Chinese boy. Walking Home to Rosie Lee LaFaye, A. 145821 EN LG 4.1 0.5 F 1282 N N - - - At the end of the Civil War, young Gabe meets many other former slaves whose kindness helps him in his quest to find his mother, who was sold away. Walking on Air Easton, Kelly 78107 EN MG 4.5 6.0 F 41542 N N - - - A young girl travels around the country performing on a tightrope during revival meetings held by her father. Wanted--A Few Bold Riders: A Bailer, Darice 52334 EN MG 4.0 0.5 F 2021 N N - - - While visiting the Pony Express exhibit Story of the Pony Express at the National Postal Museum, Kevin travels back in time and becomes Warren Upson, a famous rider with a difficult route. War Games: A Novel Based on a Couloumbis, Audrey 133423 EN MG 4.6 7.0 F 48318 N N - - - What were once just boys' games True Story become matters of life and death as Petros and his older brother, Zola, each wonder if, like their Resistance fighter cousin, they too can make a difference in Nazi-occupied Greece. The coauthor is Akila Couloumbis.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Warlord's Kites Pilegard, Virginia 86471 EN LG 4.7 0.5 F 1204 N N - - - When a hostile army attacks the Walton warlord's palace in ancient China, Chuan and his friend Jing Jing find an ingenious way to scare them off by using simple kites. Washington's War Deutsch, Stacia 114305 EN LG 4.5 2.0 F 16964 N N - - - Abigail, Jacob, Zack, and Bo travel back in time to meet George Washington and try to convince the stubborn general to continue fighting the Revolutionary War in Valley Forge. The coauthor is Rhody Cohon. Book #7 Watching Jimmy Hartry, Nancy 130464 EN MG 4.3 4.0 F 28291 N N - - - With shocking candor, Carolyn relates what really happened to her best friend, Jimmy, when his uncle "teaches him a lesson." Carolyn knows that Jimmy didn't fall from a swing as Uncle Ted claims. The plot contains profanity and violence. The Way Lies North Baxter, Jean Rae 127390 EN MG 4.6 11.0 F 74764 N N - - - During the American Revolution, fifteen- year-old Charlotte and her Loyalist family flee their home in the Mohawk Valley as a result of the violence of the "Sons of Liberty." Along the way, Charlotte learns about the Mohawks' customs and ways of life. We All Fall Down Walters, Eric 110542 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 40469 N N - - - Today is September 10, 2001, and Will, a grade nine student, will be spending the day at his father's office in the World Trade Center tomorrow. Will discovers a new side of his father during the traumatic event that continues to affect the world. We Are Patriots: Hope's Gregory, Kristiana 58693 EN MG 4.4 2.0 F 13167 N N - - N In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes Revolutionary War Diary about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description When My Name Was Keoko Park, Linda Sue 58224 EN MG 4.6 8.0 F 54951 N N - - N With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely. When the Cherry Blossoms Fell Maruno, Jennifer 144243 EN MG 4.3 4.0 F 29596 N N - - - Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa wants to be proud of her heritage but can't be. The world is at war and the government of Canada has taken unprecedented actions against her community and treats all Japanese people as enemy aliens. When the War Is Over Attema, Martha 64167 EN MG 4.1 10.0 F 74049 N N - - - In occupied Holland during WWII, a young girl's work for the resistance becomes dangerously complicated when she falls in love with a German soldier. When the Whistle Blows Slayton, Fran 130932 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 37737 N N - - - Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the Cannon 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers. When You Reach Me Stead, Rebecca 131144 EN MG 4.5 6.0 F 39253 N N - - N In 1979, as her mother prepares to be a contestant on the THE $20,000 PYRAMID, a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. Where the Ground Meets the Sky Davies, Jacqueline 67910 EN MG 4.1 7.0 F 52150 N N - - - During World War II, a twelve-year-old girl is uprooted from her quiet, east coast life and moved to a secluded army post in the New Mexico desert where her father and other scientists are working on a top secret project.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Whistler in the Dark Ernst, Kathleen 58247 EN MG 4.7 5.0 F 34320 N N - - - In 1886, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away. Whistler's Hollow Dadey, Debbie 68476 EN MG 4.0 3.0 F 18567 N N - - - In 1920, eleven-year-old Lillie Mae, recently orphaned, goes to live with her loving great-aunt and great-uncle in their Kentucky farm house, where she learns the truth about several secrets. White Sands, Red Menace Klages, Ellen 124705 EN MG 4.2 10.0 F 67408 N N - - - In 1946, high schooler Dewey Kerrigan is beginning to adjust to living with the Gordon family near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, but the arrival of her mother, who wants to take her back, changes everything. White Star: A Dog on the Titanic Crisp, Marty 77713 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 25346 N N - - N Sam, a passenger on the "Titanic", volunteers to help care for the dogs in the ocean liner's kennel. Whittington Armstrong, Alan W. 101956 EN MG 4.9 5.0 F 35423 N N - - N Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story. Wild Geese Pignat, Caroline 140781 EN MG 4.3 8.0 F 54326 N N - - - In 1847, teenager Kit Byrne heads to Canada as a wanted criminal, disguised as a boy. As she runs from her pursuers, sickness, and loss, she tries desperately to find and then keep her remaining family. Will at the Battle of Gettysburg, Calkhoven, Laurie 142178 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 38214 N N - - - In 1863, twelve-year-old Will, who longs 1863 to be a drummer in the Union army, is stuck in his sleepy hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When the Union and Confederate armies meet in his town, he and his family are caught up in the fight.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Will Northaway & the Gathering Olasky, Susan 106889 EN MG 4.8 3.0 F 21222 N N - - - No longer indentured, seventeen-year- Storm old Will has spent a year on the Teasdale farm working and learning to trust God when, in 1769, his old friend Tommy arrives in Boston as a British conscript and asks Will to help him desert. Book #4 Will Northaway & the Price of Olasky, Susan 106890 EN MG 4.5 3.0 F 22357 N N - - - By talking to him about God, a new Loyalty friend helps sixteen-year-old Will make sense of the increasing hostilities between his master, a Loyalist Boston printer, and the Patriots who chafe under Britain's rule in 1767. Book #3. Will Northaway and the Fight for Olasky, Susan 81741 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 26013 N N - - - As an apprentice to Mr. Spelman, the Freedom printer, Will begins his new life in Boston, where he experiences the violence aroused by the bitterness between the colonies and England. Will Northaway and the Quest for Olasky, Susan 81742 EN MG 4.8 5.0 F 34342 N N - - - Accused of a crime he did not commit, Liberty Will leaves England for America, where his search for his long-lost father becomes entangled with the pre- Revolutionary turmoil of the colonies' feud with England. A Williamsburg Household Anderson, Joan 128385 EN MG 4.4 1.0 F 4136 N N - - - This book focuses on events in the household of a white family and its African American slaves in in the eighteenth century. Willow Run Giff, Patricia Reilly 100996 EN MG 4.2 4.0 F 31079 N N - - N During World War II, when her father gets a job in the B-24 bomber-building factory, eleven-year-old Meggie and her parents move to Willow Run, Michigan. There she learns about different kinds of bravery from all of the people around her. Winnie's War Moss, Jenny 129344 EN MG 4.1 6.0 F 40249 N N - - - Living in the shadow of a Texas cemetery, twelve-year-old Winnie Grace struggles to keep the Spanish influenza of 1918 from touching her family.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Winter Danger Steele, William O. 81588 EN MG 4.8 4.0 F 28417 N N - - - A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father leaves him with relatives and returns to the woods. Winter of Peril: The Newfoundland Andrews, Jan 87343 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 41252 N N - - - Sophie's father is determined to travel to Diary of Sophie Loveridge, Mairie's the New World and write an epic poem Cove, New-Found-Land, 1721 about his adventure, against Sophie's and her mom's wishes. After their voyage, they arrive to a new world indeed. Will they be able to survive the winter in this harsh land? Wintering Well Wait, Lea 81589 EN MG 4.9 6.0 F 39578 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old Will Ames and his sister Cassie go to stay with their sister in nearby Wiscasset, Maine, after a disabling accident ruins Will's plans for a career in farming. Wish Riders Jennings, Patrick 109043 EN MG 4.8 7.0 F 44523 N N - - - A mysterious seagull delivers some unusual seeds to Dusty, and her life changes when she plants them. Perhaps it is the strength of her wishes or the magic of the forest, but some unknown power transforms those seeds into a means of deliverance. With the Might of Angels: The Diary Pinkney, Andrea 146291 EN MG 4.8 8.0 F 54862 N N - - - In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn of Dawnie Rae Johnson Davis Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. Wonder Horse: The True Story of McCully, Emily 135542 EN MG 4.1 0.5 F 1218 N N - - - This book is a fictionalized account of the World's Smartest Horse Arnold Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian and who trained his horse to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits, moving the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Wonder Kid Harrar, George 106192 EN MG 4.8 6.0 F 41229 N N - - - In the summer of 1954, eleven-year-old Jesse James MacLean contracts polio, but with a friend's help and despite his unsympathetic father, he finds ways to prove that his spirit is still strong. The Wonder of Charlie Anne Fusco, Kimberly 138694 EN MG 4.7 8.0 F 57095 N N - - - In a 1930s Massachusetts farm town Newton torn by the Depression, racial tension, and other hardships, Charlie Anne and her black next-door neighbor Phoebe form a friendship that begins to transform their community. Worlds Apart Karr, Kathleen 86478 EN MG 4.6 6.0 F 37903 N N - - - In 1670, soon after arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists from England, fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee Indian, Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about survival, slavery, and friendship. Worth LaFaye, A. 79584 EN MG 4.5 4.0 F 25792 N N - - N After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth- century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse. Year of the Black Pony Morey, Walt 120357 EN MG 4.4 6.0 F 41967 N N - - - A boy growing up in the Oregon country in the early 1900s experiences the death of his father, the remarriage of his mother, and the ultimate attainment of a dream. You Come to Yokum Hurst, Carol Otis 102505 EN MG 4.2 4.0 F 26309 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Frank witnesses his mother's struggles to muster support for women's right to vote even as the family's life is transformed by a year running a lodge in western Massachusetts in the early 1920s.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Your Friend in Fashion, Abby Axelrod, Amy 144118 EN MG 4.5 9.0 F 62724 N N - - - Beginning in 1959, Abby, nearly eleven, Shapiro writes a series of letters to Jackie Kennedy, each with sketches of outfits she has designed, as she faces family problems, concerns about neighbors, and her own desire for both her first bra and a Barbie doll. Zellie Blake Duey, Kathleen 59359 EN MG 4.7 4.0 F 27351 N N - - - Zellie finds a puzzling list in one of the girls' rooms. A hidden note and whispers in the dark add to the mystery, until a friendship leads Zellie to a secret meeting where things become clear.

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