Ann Rinaldi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation in 1864, turns to Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort and is rumored to be at Andersonville Prison.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
6) Broken days
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and, along with a startling revelation about her own background, comes to understand the true nature of war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
In 1778 fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as personal maid to Peggy Shippen, the daughter of wealthy Philadelphia Quakers, and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the revolutionary American forces.
12) The blue door
Author
Series
Quilt trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Lady Jane Grey, who at sixteen was Queen of England for nine days before being executed, recounts her life story from the age of nine. I had freckles. I had sandy hair. I was too short. Would my feet even touch the ground if I sat on the throne? These are the words of lady Jane Grey, as imagined by celebrated author Ann Rinaldi. Jane would become Queen of England for only nine days before being beheaded at the age of sixteen. Here is a breathtaking...
17) Wolf by the ears
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
18) The staircase
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Someone is setting fires in New York City ... In 1741, America is at war with Catholic Spain. Phoebe watches as her town erupts into mass hysteria when the whites in New York City accuse the black slaves of planning an uprising. With people implicating each other at every turn, Phoebe has to decide if she's willing to save her friend Cuffee from execution, or if her own conscience and quest for freedom will be singed by her indiscretions.