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Sugar / Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Rho Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780316043069
Pub. Info: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2014. Ã2013
Target Audience: 3.5. 3-6 Follett School Solutions. 430 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG 2.9 4.0 Reading Counts 2.4 9.0
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Rho Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780316043069
Pub. Info: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2014. Ã2013
Target Audience: 3.5. 3-6 Follett School Solutions. 430 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG 2.9 4.0 Reading Counts 2.4 9.0
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
All different now : Juneteenth, the first day of freedom / Angela Johnson ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis.
Johnson, Angela,
Branch: 0440
Call Number: E Joh Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780689873768
Pub. Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2014]
Target Audience: 5.5. K-3 Follett School Solutions. AD830 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader LG 3.1 0.5 Reading Counts 4.4 1.0
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
Johnson, Angela,
Branch: 0440
Call Number: E Joh Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780689873768
Pub. Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2014]
Target Audience: 5.5. K-3 Follett School Solutions. AD830 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader LG 3.1 0.5 Reading Counts 4.4 1.0
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
The Boundless / Kenneth Oppel.
Oppel, Kenneth,
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Opp Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781442472891
Pub. Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015. Ã2014
Target Audience: 5.0. 5-8 Follett School Solutions. 730 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 11.0 Reading Counts 4.5 16.0
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
Oppel, Kenneth,
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Opp Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781442472891
Pub. Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015. Ã2014
Target Audience: 5.0. 5-8 Follett School Solutions. 730 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 11.0 Reading Counts 4.5 16.0
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
Splendors and glooms / Laura Amy Schlitz.
Schlitz, Laura Amy.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Sch Collection: TX
ISBN: 0763653802
Pub. Info: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.
Target Audience: 5.1. 5-8 Follett School Solutions. 670 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG 5.1 15.0 Reading Counts 4.2 23.0
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
Schlitz, Laura Amy.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Sch Collection: TX
ISBN: 0763653802
Pub. Info: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.
Target Audience: 5.1. 5-8 Follett School Solutions. 670 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG 5.1 15.0 Reading Counts 4.2 23.0
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
My heart will not sit down / by Mara Rockliff ; illustrated by Ann Tanksley.
Rockliff, Mara.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: E Roc Collection: TX
ISBN: 0375845690
Pub. Info: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.
Target Audience: 3.3. K-3 Follett School Solutions.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader LG 4.4 0.5
In 1931 Cameroon, young Kedi is upset to learn that children in her American teacher's village of New York are going hungry because of the Great Depression, and she asks her mother, neighbors, and even the headman for money to help. Includes historical notes.
Rockliff, Mara.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: E Roc Collection: TX
ISBN: 0375845690
Pub. Info: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.
Target Audience: 3.3. K-3 Follett School Solutions.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader LG 4.4 0.5
In 1931 Cameroon, young Kedi is upset to learn that children in her American teacher's village of New York are going hungry because of the Great Depression, and she asks her mother, neighbors, and even the headman for money to help. Includes historical notes.
P.S. be eleven / by Rita Williams-Garcia.
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Wil Collection: TX
ISBN: 0061938629
Pub. Info: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013]
Target Audience: 770 Lexile. 4.6. 5-8 Follett School Solutions.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.6 8.0 158513 IN. Reading Counts RC 4.7 12.0 IN.
Sequel to: One crazy Summer.
After spending the summer of 1968 with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern return home to Brooklyn with a new feeling of independence, but they discover their father has a new girlfriend, Uncle Darnell has come home from Vietnam a changed man, and Big Ma still expects Delphine to take care of everything. Feeling overwhelmed, Delphine writes to her mother, who reminds her to enjoy being eleven and not grow up too fast.
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Wil Collection: TX
ISBN: 0061938629
Pub. Info: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013]
Target Audience: 770 Lexile. 4.6. 5-8 Follett School Solutions.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.6 8.0 158513 IN. Reading Counts RC 4.7 12.0 IN.
Sequel to: One crazy Summer.
After spending the summer of 1968 with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern return home to Brooklyn with a new feeling of independence, but they discover their father has a new girlfriend, Uncle Darnell has come home from Vietnam a changed man, and Big Ma still expects Delphine to take care of everything. Feeling overwhelmed, Delphine writes to her mother, who reminds her to enjoy being eleven and not grow up too fast.
May B. : a novel / by Caroline Starr Rose.
Rose, Caroline Starr.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Ros Collection: TX
ISBN: 158246393X
Pub. Info: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2012.
Target Audience: 680 Lexile. 4.0. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.3 2.0 148809 IN. Reading Counts RC 4.2 6.0 IN.
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, twelve-year-old May's father pulls her from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
Rose, Caroline Starr.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Ros Collection: TX
ISBN: 158246393X
Pub. Info: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2012.
Target Audience: 680 Lexile. 4.0. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.3 2.0 148809 IN. Reading Counts RC 4.2 6.0 IN.
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, twelve-year-old May's father pulls her from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
Unspoken : a story from the Underground Railroad / Henry Cole.
Cole, Henry,
Branch: 0440
Call Number: E Col Collection: TX
ISBN: 0545399971
Pub. Info: New York : Scholastic Press, 2012.
Target Audience: K-3 Follett Library Resources.
In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.
Cole, Henry,
Branch: 0440
Call Number: E Col Collection: TX
ISBN: 0545399971
Pub. Info: New York : Scholastic Press, 2012.
Target Audience: K-3 Follett Library Resources.
In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.
The mighty Miss Malone / Christopher Paul Curtis.
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Cur Collection: TX
ISBN: 0440422140
Pub. Info: New York : Yearling, 2013, c2012.
Target Audience: 750 Lexile. 4.4. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 10.0 148755 IN. Reading Counts RC 4.6 17.0 IN.
"A Yearling book."
Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Cur Collection: TX
ISBN: 0440422140
Pub. Info: New York : Yearling, 2013, c2012.
Target Audience: 750 Lexile. 4.4. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 10.0 148755 IN. Reading Counts RC 4.6 17.0 IN.
"A Yearling book."
Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.
The ghost of Crutchfield Hall / Mary Downing Hahn.
Hahn, Mary Downing.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Hah Collection: TX
ISBN: 054757715X
Pub. Info: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2010.
Target Audience: 680 Lexile. 4.4. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 4.0 140166 IN. Reading Counts RC 4.2 8.0 IN.
"Sandpiper."
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
Hahn, Mary Downing.
Branch: 0440
Call Number: F Hah Collection: TX
ISBN: 054757715X
Pub. Info: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2010.
Target Audience: 680 Lexile. 4.4. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 4.0 140166 IN. Reading Counts RC 4.2 8.0 IN.
"Sandpiper."
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.