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(0)Kathryn Lasky
1) The capture
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Soren, a barn owl, arrives at St. Aggie's, a school for orphaned owls, he suspects trouble and with his new friend, a clever elf owl named Gylfie, embarks on a perilous journey to save all owls from the danger at St. Aggie's.
2) The journey
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
It began as a dream, a quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kingdom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies in this compelling novel by a best-selling author. Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction movies, but she won't be going to the theater anytime soon. It's a hot Indiana summer in 1952, and public places from pools to camps are closing to slow the spread of polio. Despite all the headlines, Georgie never thought she'd
...Author
Series
Georgia O'Keeffe mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Lasky has written an exciting new adult amateur sleuth mystery set in New Mexico in the 1930s. The sleuth is Georgia O'Keefe, who actually did suffer a nervous breakdown in 1933 when her husband Alfred Stieglitz had a somewhat public affair, was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment, and then traveled to the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico to paint. O'Keefe was approaching the peak of her fame and success, having just sold a painting for a record...
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Forced to abandon Princess Elizabeth when Mary ascends the English throne, Rose sews elaborate gowns for Mary's upcoming coronation before violently escalating attacks on Protestants compel her to escape into her own time.
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroups Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
9) The portal
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate......
10) Lucille camps in
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Lucille is upset that she can not go camping with her father and older siblings, she and her mother decide to go camping inside the house.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
This box set contains the first three books by Kathryn Lasky, which are the basis of the animated movie, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
The Capture, Book One. Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, and Soren is captured and imprisoned in a dark canyon where there is a mysterious school. It's called an orphanage, but Soren believes it's something far
...Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
15) The rescue
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"Even though Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now Eglantine is back in Soren's life, but she's been through an ordeal too terrible for words. And Ezylryb, Soren's mentor, has disappeared ... In order to rescue him, Soren must embark upon a perilous quest."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
17) Frost wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When a terrible danger threatens the wolves of the Beyond, outsider Faolan must take a leadership role and inspire the pack to stand together.
18) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies against the Pure Ones who are about to launch another deadly attack against the great tree. The Grand Battle begins with the search for allies in the Northern Kingdoms and ends in The Burning that will change all Owldom forever. Soren and his band are sent to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to gather allies and learn the art of war in preparation for the coming cataclysmic...
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In order to protect him, Grank raises the royal chick named Hoole deep in the forest, but when an evil warlord attempts to lure Hoole away to kill him, Grank brings Hoole to Beyond the Beyond, a strange land of fiery volcanoes in a barren, icy landscape.
20) Watch wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Faolan, poised to take his place as a member of the revered Wolves of the Watch, may be the only one who can stop Dunbar MacHeath and his clan from provoking a war between the Watch and the bears.
