Elisa Carbone
2) Jump
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two teenaged runaways meet at a climbing gym and together embark on a dangerous and revealing journey.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving station, despite his father's objections
5) The pack
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Akhil Vyas, a new boy in school, reluctantly decides that in order to prevent a violent crime, he must tell Omar and Becky his secret.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the huge steamship on which they are traveling runs aground off the New Jersey coast in 1882, two boys and their families are among the passengers dramatically rescued by members of the U.S. Life Saving Service. Includes notes about the event on which the story is based.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A runaway slave makes a daring escape to freedom with the help of his faithful hunting dog, Zeus. Based on the true story of James Smith's journey from Virginia to Ohio in the mid-1800s