Elizabeth Massie
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Young founders volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Sixteen-year-old twins Susanne and Stephen leave their Gettysburg farm, one as a nurse and the other as a Union soldier, little knowing that their hometown will soon become the focus of the Civil War.
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America as seen through the eyes of its young founders.
Seventeen-year-old Patrick O'Neall dreams of going to college one day and becoming a famous writer-until news arrives of his father's death in a place called Gettysburg. Forced off their farm, the family migrates north, hoping to find work in the booming mill towns of industrial New England. What they find in the factory town of Leeland is not a better life, but drudgery and poverty and heartache....
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Without education, it's very difficult to make the most of your talents and abilities. But for much of American history, black people couldn't get an education. In many places it was against the law for slaves to learn to read and write. Despite this, many brave slaves found a way to learn. Some taught themselves. Others sneaked to schools held late at night. Even after slavery was ended in 1865, African Americans continued to be treated unfairly....
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"Arithmophobia," n.: The fear of numbers or mathematics.
Whether you love mathematics or find it terrifying, this anthology of original tales of terror is sure to send a chill down your spine. With an unlucky thirteen brand new horror stories and a bonus poem in case any readers suffer from triskaidekaphobia, these pages combine the talents of some of the genre's most experienced award-winning practitioners of terror and some of the literary...
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Daughters of liberty volume 1
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Daughters of liberty volume 3
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Life in Philadelphia after America's declaration of independence is very exciting for Barbara Lyman and Patsy Black. British spies could be anywhere, even in Barbara's stables. When her father offers shelter to two travelers, Barbara suspects they're up to no good and does some spying of her own. She discovers they are British soldiers, but before she can go for help, they steal the wagon she's hiding in, and Barbara must figure out a way to escape...
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Series
Daughters of liberty volume 2
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4