Catalog Search Results
1) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Separated by decades, Josef, a Jew living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a girl trying to escape unrest in 1994 Cuba; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence, embark on journeys in search of refuge.
Author
Series
I survived graphic novel volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The beast beneath the mountain is restless. No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes—and always goes back to sleep. But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong—and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from...
Author
Series
I survived volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ben is visiting his dad's home town in Japan when first a massive earthquake, and then a tsunami hit the island nation. Now Ben is alone, separated from his family, and stranded in a strange country. Can he survive this epic disaster?
Author
Series
War volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Starting in 1972 when she is nine, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When someone commits robbery and murder aboard the luxurious train on which Myrtle Hardcastle, her Aunt Helena, her governess Miss Judson, and cat Peony are traveling, Myrtle is determined to find the culprit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.
12) Milkweed
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captures the hardships and cruelty of life in the ghettos of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of World War II, through the eyes of a Jewish orphan who must use all his wits and courage to survive unimaginable events and circumstances.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, twelve-year-old Audrey dreams of being an aerialist like her heroes, the Flying Wallendas, and so she is excited to go to Ringling Brothers circus with her six-year-old twin sisters; but at the show a fire breaks out, andas the crowd starts to panic Audrey struggles to reach her sisters--she gets Patty out, but Charlotte, afraid of heights, refuses to jump from the higher seats, and disappears as the big top comes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Haus Studio
George Calder must be the luckiest kid alive - he and his little sister, Phoebe, are sailing with their aunt on the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built! George can't resist exploring every inch of the incredible boat, even if it gets him into trouble.
But
...Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Could an entire city really burn to the ground? One brave boy finds out in this graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestelling I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Cassie Anderson.Oscar Starling never wanted to move to Chicago. The smog, the stench, the thieves around every corner — it's so different from his old life on the farm. Will the big city ever feel like home? But...
17) Rescue
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916,with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Haus Studio!Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean along the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1935, dust storms are sweeping across the southern plains of the United States, including Oklahome. Twelve-year-old Millie is worried about her family's survival. The Dust Bowl is getting worse, and they're runnign out of food and money. Despite the hardships, Pa doesn't want to abandon the farm, which has been in the family for generations. But when the worst "black blizzard" yet hits, they have no choice. The family decides to make the journey...
In MNLINK
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by East Central Regional Library can be requested from other MNLINK libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request