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Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
229 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
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