Marissa Moss
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Talibah and her ten-year-old brother, Adom, visit modern-day Egypt with their historian-father, they become involved in a mystery surrounding Hatshepsut, a woman pharoah, and Senenmut, architect of her mortuary tomb, as well as their own deceased mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Frank Thompson sees a recruitment poster for the new Union army, he's ready and willing to enlist. Except Frank isn't his real name. In fact, Frank is really Sarah Emma Edmonds, in disguise. Only nineteen years old, Sarah has already been dressing as a man for three years and living on the run in order to escape an arranged marriage. She's tasted freedom, and as far as she's concerned, there's no going back. Eager to fight for the North during...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the childhood dream of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"America's Tea Parties: Not One But Four!" is the first nonfiction picture book to ever share that New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston each had their own tea party that took place around the same time as Boston's. "America's Tea Parties" provides background on the English taxation on the colonies, with emphasis on the people who stood up for their rights against the tyranny of the British as ships from the East India Company pulled into their harbors....
Author
Series
Mira's diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mira receives a postcard from her missing mother from Paris and she and her father travel to France to search for her, but while visiting Notre Dame, Mira touches a gargoyle and is whirled into the past, where she meets the famous painter Degas and catches a brief, shocking glimpse of her mother.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1931, seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game, becoming the first professional female pitcher in baseball history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After successfully commanding the Discovery shuttle mission at Space Camp, Amelia returns to fifth grade where she deals with the bully who has been making her life miserable.
17) Home Sweet Rome
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mira travels around the world—and into the past—in search of her missing mother, visiting the Wonders of the Modern World. Illustrated with line drawings from Mira's very own sketchbook.
A new postcard from her time-traveling mother points Mira to the 16th century Rome. But before she can rescue her mom, she must follow the clues left around the city to find Giordano Bruno, a famous thinker and mathematician, who discovered
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Series
Publisher
Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amelia records in her diary a nightmare come true when her older sister tags along on a sixth-grade class trip, and Amelia must deal with her snoring and disgusting eating habits.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
1. Now in sixth grade, Amelia records in her diary all of the problems that arise when a new girl at school seems to be passing nasty notes to Amelia and trying to steal her best friend.
2. Amelia thought that the only thing better than a best friend was two best friends. But then they come together and she's not sure if any of them are friends. Will Amelia be able to have more than one best friend?
20) Vote 4 Amelia
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Amelia records her thoughts and feelings about running for school secretary.