Candace Fleming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew into the Russian Revolution. Maneuvering between the lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Biography of P.T. Barnum, showman and founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Readers can visit Barnum's American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 in. tall) and his tinier bride (32 in.); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum's legacy.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.
10) Oh, no!
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
A series of animals falls into a deep hole, only to be saved at last by a very large rescuer.
11) Boxes for Katje
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentucky's poor, to helping her grandchildren hang a tire swing on the White House's south lawn, to representing America as the first female delegate to the United Nations, Eleanor rarely kept a second of her life for herself -- and she wouldn't have had it any other way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
" "You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing out thick smoke--these young people had no idea what...
16) Giant squid
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
The giant squid is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. As large as whales, they hide beyond reach deep within the sea, forcing scientists to piece together their story from those clues they leave behind. An injured whale's ring-shaped scars indicate an encounter with a giant squid. A piece of beak broken off in the whale's belly; a flash of ink dispersed as a blinding defense to allow the squid to escape-- these fragments of proof were...
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous "crash from outer space" has become a fixture in our culture, inspiring a surge...