Brash young apprentice Johnny Tremain, injured in an accident that leaves him unable to practice his trade, becomes involved with Rab, a Boston printer, who draws Johnny with him into the events of the Revolutionary War.

4) Johnny Tremain: a novel for old & young

Author

Forbes, Esther

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13

Lexile measure

840L

Language

English

Description

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Follows a young apprentice from a tragic accident in a silversmith's shop to his dramatic involvement as a patriot in the days just before the American Revolution.

5) The cat who went to heaven

Author

Coatsworth, Elizabeth

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2

Lexile measure

1000L

Language

English

Description

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A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune.

6) The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge

Author

Swift, Hildegarde Hoyt

Series

Voyager book AVB 89

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

530L

Language

English

Formats

Book - Regular Print, Child - Picture Book

Description

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A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.

7) Kidnapped

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Series

Scribner storybook classic
Enriched classics
Scholastic classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14

Lexile measure

990L

Language

English

Formats

Book - Mass Market Paperback, Book - Regular Print, eBook, Kindle

Description

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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

8) The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Author

Defoe, Daniel

Series

Best loved classics
Illustrated junior library

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27

Language

English

Description

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An Englishman stranded by shipwreck on a desert island survives there for some thirty years.

9) The Swiss family Robinson

Author

Wyss, Johann David

Series

Treasury of illustrated classics
TOR classic
Puffin classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3

Lexile measure

NC 1190L

Language

English

Formats

Audiobook on CD, Book - Graphic Novel, Book - Mass Market Paperback, Book - Regular Print

Description

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When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.

10) Lord Jim: a tale

Author

Conrad, Joseph

Series

Everyman's library volume 65

Language

English

Description

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With Lord Jim, first published in 1900, Joseph Conrad transformed a tale of seafaring adventure into a subtle study of the meaning of honor and courage, loyalty and betrayal. When Jim, an idealistic merchant seaman and ship's officer, abandons the supposedly sinking Patna and its passengers, he dashes his youthful dreams of glory in a single stroke. Condemned in court for his impetuous act of cowardice, Jim relegates himself to a life roaming the...

11) Brady

Author

Fritz, Jean

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8

Lexile measure

880L

Language

English

Description

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A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.

12) America's Paul Revere

Author

Forbes, Esther

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2

Lexile measure

1000L

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the patriot of the Revolution who had many trades, among them silver work, manufacture of copper, casting of bells, engraving, and dentistry.

13) Early thunder

Author

Fritz, Jean

Publisher

Coward-McCann

Pub. Date

[1967]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9

Lexile measure

840L

Language

English

Description

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Traces a youth's growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-revolutionary Salem, a center of high feeling between the British and colonists.

14) The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge

Author

Swift, Hildegarde Hoyt

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace and Company

Pub. Date

(1942)

Lexile measure

530L

Language

English

Formats

Book - Regular Print, Child - Picture Book

15) The wildest horse race in the world

Author

Henry, Marguerite

Publisher

Rand McNally

Pub. Date

c1960

Language

English

Description

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A story, based on real events, about a boy and a half-Arabian mare who enter the Palio, an annual race in Siena, Italy, with all the pageantry of a medieval contest.

16) America's Ethan Allen

Author

Holbrook, Stewart H

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Co

Pub. Date

[between 1980 and 1989?], c1949

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the patriot and soldier who led the Green Mountain Boys in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775.

17) War chief of the Seminoles

Author

McNeer, May

Series

Landmark books volume 50

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

1954.

Language

English

Description

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During the second Seminole War the whoop of Osceola, chief of the Seminoles, was often heard in the swamps of Florida. Osceola led his people in their fight against the settlers who wanted the Indians' land. Skirmishes at last burst into war. In spite of Osceola's skillful leadership, he was finally captured by the U.S. Army and later died in prison.