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(0)Gloria Whelan
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Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Pierre dreams of being a chef at his parents' restaurant, La Bonne Vache, in the south of France and is told he is too young, but when an important guest comes Pierre sees a chance to prove himself. Includes notes about dining in France and aglossary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesn't live in the great house. She is a slave. It's dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton. And it's sunset when she comes home. But her day isn't done, not yet. Ella May still has important work to do. She's got to listen. Each night Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their master's house. The children listen in the hopes of gleaning information about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Voices for Freedom contains three stories focusing on the Underground Railroad and the 1963 Freedom March on Washington. Stories are Friend on Freedom River, Riding to Washington, and The Listeners.In Friend on Freedom River, written by Gloria Whelan, runaway slaves ask Louis to ferry them across the Detroit River to freedom in Canada. He’s not sure what to do. If they are caught, it means prison for Louis. Written by Gwenyth Swain, Riding
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Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Ireland in the Middle Ages, young Brother Cuthbert, known for making mistakes and giving up easily, is chosen through a miscommunication to serve as scribe for an illuminated manuscript of the Nativity story, through which the Abbot hopes to make the monastery famous.
Author
Publisher
A Paula Wiseman Book/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, when Queen Victoria is unable to go swimming without her subjects glimpsing her in a swimming suit, her husband, Prince Albert, comes up with an innovative solution so his wife can indulge in the healthy exercise.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady-in-waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Belle resents the presence of her sophisticated cousin on a family vacation in the summer of 1942, but their strained relationship is overshadowed by the war in Europe.
