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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sadie promises that she will always be Wilma's best friend when their families leaves drought-stricken Missouri in 1933, but once in Texas, Sadie learns that she must try to make a new home--and new friends, too.
4) Miraculum
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1922. The carnival is Pontilliars Spectacular Star Light Miraculum, staked out on the Texas-Louisiana border. One blazing summer night, a mysterious stranger steps onto the midway, lights a cigarette and forever changes the world around him. Tattooed snake charmer Ruby has traveled with her fathers carnival for most of her life and, jaded though she is, cant help but be drawn to the tall man in the immaculate black suit who conveniently...
5) Kiowa trail
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Conn Dury was ramrod of the Tumbling B. He'd just finished the long, rough drive up from Texas.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Stanley Lambchop can't wait to visit Texas and hang out with his brother, Arthur, and friends Carlos and Eduardo. Between jamming onstage at a rock concert and horseback riding in the desert, Stanley is flying high! But when a mysterious truck starts following them, the fun comes to a halt until a showdown at the Alamo reveals all. Is Stanley ready to face his fears with his friends by his side.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
198 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1968 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires.
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