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(0)Jim Murphy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1130L
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
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1070L
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1130L
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
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1070L
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
Lexile measure
1240L
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
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
NC 1160L
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
12) Inside the Alamo
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
An overview of the struggle between the Texan settlers and Mexico's General Santa Anna for control of Texas, with a detailed description of the 1836 siege of the Alamo. Includes biographical sketches and quotations of some of those involved.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1170L
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...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
In September 1862, two great armies faced each other across Antietam Creek. The outnumbered Confederate forces were led by General Robert E. Lee. The Union army was led by General George B. McClellan. Jim Murphy uses archival photographs, maps, and firsthand accounts to recreate one of America's most important battles.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1200L
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1180L
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
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
970L
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.
