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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
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Arriving in the New World after a grueling Atlantic crossing, Mayflower passenger Mem cares for her dying fellow pilgrims while befriending Native American Squanto, who assists her family through a first year of tragedy and thanksgiving.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Twelve-year-old Amber Billows, upset to be moving once again to follow her father's reporting job, cannot help loving Hawaii, but the peace of her tropical paradise is shattered on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
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In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.
14) The journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad worker : Nebraska and points west, 1867
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.