Katherine Paterson
Author
Pub. Date
1995, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Abducted from his home by bandits, fifteen-year-old Wang Lee is rescued from slavery by a mysterious girl who introduces him to the Taiping Tienkuo, a secret society, partly based on Christian principles and dedicated to the overthrow of the Manchu government.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is also facing a bully of his own.
25) Lyddie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Gr 5-9 --In this superb novel, Paterson deftly depicts a Lowell, Massachusetts fabric mill in the 1840s and a factory girl whose life is changed by her experiences there. Readers first meet 13-year-old Lyddie Worthen staring down a bear on her family' debt-ridden farm in the Vermont mountains. With her fierce spirit, she stares down a series of metaphorical bears in her year as a servant girl at an inn and then in her months under grueling conditions...
29) The flint heart
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A magical amulet brings power and despair to those who touch it.