Alison Hart
1) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
Author
Language
English
Description
""A page-turner, an eye-opener, a heartbreaker, a delight, The Work Wife is that rare book that illuminates a world we never knew existed while also making us feel so much less alone in everyday life." --Julia Phillips, author of National Book Award finalist Disappearing Earth "The Work Wife is a bold and wholly satisfying novel about power, ambition, and the price women must often pay for their dreams. I gobbled it up." --Emma Straub, New York Times...
Author
Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old newly-freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York.
Author
Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2011]
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
The reader makes a series of choices that determine how the story's main character will deal with her jealousy when her good friend, a gymnast, joins Innerstar University's diving team and immediately excels.
Author
Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Gabriel, a former slave, leaves behind his life as a professional jockey and joins his father in the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry at Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
The reader makes a series of choices that determine how the story's main character will deal with being asked to ride the spirited Silver Sky in a horse show after being thrown in her previous competition.
8) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Abby Joyner continues to live with her grandparents on the isolated Virginia plantation where she was raised, although they are now free. Abby's main concern is discovering what became of her mother, who disappeared when Abby was a baby.
10) Anna's blizzard
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Having never excelled at schoolwork, twelve-year-old Anna discovers that she may know a few things about survival when the 1888 Children's Blizzard traps her and her classmates in their Nebraska schoolhouse.