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41) Juba!
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba; includes historical note.
42) Little women
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in the nineteenth-century, New England.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary misses her life and friends in Ireland and is sad that her family cannot celebrate Thanksgiving Day the way their New England neighbors do, until her parents share a story of the Pilgrims' first harvest festival.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
During one year, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, aged nine to thirteen, get to know their neighbors the Lawrences, attend school dances and sleepovers, have first crushes, and grow closer despite their differences.
45) ParaNorman
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Disbelieved when he reveals an ability to communicate with ghosts, eleven year-old Norman Babcock uses his special talents when his quaint New England town is overrun by pilgrim zombies, an angry witch, and his boy-crazy teenage sister.
47) Past perfect
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.
48) Little women
Author
Publisher
Sandy Creek
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New England, talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
183 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, fourteen-year-old Rose sees no value in her mother's feminist views until she tries to enter a horse riding competition open only to boys.
52) Mending horses
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Free and on his own, Daniel Linnehan is nearly sixteen in 1839 when he joins Jonathan Stocking and Billy, a girl hiding from her abusive father, in peddling goods in New England.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 4
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.
54) Little women
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After a horrifying public rejection by her crush, Ellie Nichols does what any girl would do: she flees the country. To be more precise, she joins her high school's study abroad trip to England. While most of her classmates are there to take honors courses and pad their college applications, Ellie is on a quest to rebuild her reputation and self-confidence. And nothing is more of a confidence booster than getting a hot British boyfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scrooge is downright mean and cold-hearted--the stingiest man in all of London. Could anything on earth transform him into a kind and caring human being? Probably not. But the Spirit of Christmas is very powerful--more powerful by far than anything on earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The festive season has come to Sinclair's and Sophie and Lil are spending the holidays at snowy Winter Hall. As sinister secrets come to light, our intrepid heroines find themselves faced with a more baffling mystery than ever before! With the help of their friends, can they uncover the truth in time to foil a truly diabolical plot? Or will Mr Sinclair's New Year's Eve Midnight Peacock Ball spell disaster for the dauntless young detectives? Prepare...
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Silly Mrs. Bennet is "husband hunting" for her five daughters. Heaven knows it isn't easy! Darcy would make a great match for Elizabeth--if it weren't for his false pride and her stubborn prejudice. And the other girls aren't cooperating either. Jane is too shy to show affection, and Lydia has run off with an unsuitable army officer! What's a poor mother to do?
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.