Jim Murphy
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, [the author] constructs a ... narrative that recreates the events ... And finally, he reveals how, even in a time of deepest despair, the human spirit triumphed, as the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again.-Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the Christmas truce that occurred along Western Front trenches in 1914 and features quotations from young men on both sides, a timeline, and additional source material.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This powerful dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. An American Plague offers a fascinating glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants, nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. Also discusses Lincoln's famous speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on Arnold's surviving writings and on the letters, memoirs, and political documents of his contemporaries ... a fascinating portrait of a brilliant man, consistently undervalued by his peers, who made a choice that continues to reverberate through American history."
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A biography of an Italian peasant who immigrated to America in the early twentieth century and endured poverty and the difficult life of an unskilled laborer, determined to become a published poet.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalocks African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and social...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A description of the Cardiff Giant mystery in which a man in upstate New York buried a ten-foot-tall., petrified model of a man, which was discovered by well diggers a year later, and set into motion a money-making spectacle.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"This is the compelling, suspenseful, down-to-earth story of a killer that has been stalking and doing away with people for thousands of years: Tuberculosis. For centuries TB in many forms was treated with everything from poultices and potions to the king's touch. The microorganism that causes the disease was eventually identified, more effective treatments were developed, and the cure for TB was thought to be within reach. But the TB germ simply...