Nicole Helget
Author
Language
English
Description
Clement and Angel were born at an orphanage, just before their mother fled to Mexico. Though they grow up in the same small frontier town, they inhabit entirely different worlds. Clement remains among the orphans and nuns with whom he was abandoned. Angel, adopted by a wealthy family, now lives in the town mansion with her overbearing mother. All around them, the nation is pushing boundaries both geographical and moral. The Civil War is approaching,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl who wants to know everything challenges her assumptions about family, loyalty, and friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy--and to begin creating her own.
Hallelujah Wonder wants to become one of the first female scientists of the nineteenth century. She knows every specimen and rare artifact that her explorer father hid deep in a cave before he died, and she feels a great...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman's secret may tear her rural Minnesota community apart, in this "emotional tale of star-crossed love, vengeance and regret" (Publishers Weekly). In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the "slow" son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester's friendship in the wake of her parents' deaths...
Author
Language
English
Description
Practicing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the county road with semi trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from a fierce and...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Fern helps her poor family by hunting and foraging for food in the forest near her home and worries that fracking will damage their livelihood, but she cannot get her family and neighbors to understand the threat.
6) Horse camp
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Lu Wonder, a bright, curious girl who hopes to be a scientist, sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.
9) Dragonflies
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
11) Stillwater
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage; Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her mother's mental illness. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come to save him. Stillwater, near the Mississippi River and Canada, becomes an important stop on...
12) Cockroaches
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
13) Barbarians
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling look at barbarians, including their clashes with the Greek and Roman empires, their lifestyle, their weapons, and how they remain a part of today's culture through books and film" -Provided by Publisher.
14) Mongols
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
15) Swans
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
16) Beetles
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
17) Fireflies
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
18) Giraffes
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English