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Infinity ring volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy."--P....
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Bizarre Baron inventions volume 1
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English
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1891. Waldo ́W.B.́ Baron has just woken up to find his house floating a thousand feet above the ground. His inventor parents have transformed their house into a flying machine, which theýve entered into a race around the country. Unfortunately for W.B. (who knows less about science than the average tapeworm), that means missing a show staring the hero of his favorite adventure novels, Sheriff Graham. The incomparably klutzy W.B. gets his own taste...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the real-world experiences of passengers, conductors and abolitionists, well-known and unknown, who shaped history through their participation in the Underground Railroad, is complemented by reminiscences by BeForever character and escaped slave, Addy Walker.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master falls into debt, he plans to sell Ann and her younger brother. Ann is convinced her family must run away on the Underground railroad. Will Ann's family survive the dangerous trip and make it to freedom?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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Great escapes volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"In 1863, Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton led fifteen desperate Union soldiers out a grimy tunnel underneath the nightmarish Confederate-run Libby Prison in Richmond, VA"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.
13) Tracks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
An Irish boy and a Chinese boy become friends, despite their mistrust and prejudices, while working on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1866.
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Language
English
Description
"Eleanor has a mystery to solve. Her beloved grandfather is hiding a secret, but where? Will she find it in the folds of his black coat? Tucked into his wiry gray beard? Or does it lie behind the sparkle in his eyes? Join curious Eleanor as she is transported into the stories, vivid imagination and heart of one of America's greatest writers, Herman Melville, author of the legendary classic, Moby Dick"--Back cover.
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