Richard Peck
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alexander Armsworth sees lights in the barn, is identified by Blossom Culp's spiritualist mother as gifted, and begins a series of Mississippi River adventures accompanied by his aged Uncle Miles and a curious female ghost.
12) Secrets at Sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Author
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Trav, Kate, and Buck make up a trio during their freshman year in high school, but their special friendship may not be enough to save Trav as he pressures himself relentlessly to succeed, in his own eyes as well as in the eyes of his parents and the world.
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While dealing with changes at home, sixth-grader Josh and his friend Aaron use the computer at their New York prep school to travel through time, learning some secrets from the school's past and improving Josh's home situation.
18) Fair Weather
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
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Pub. Date
2004
Description
Russell Culver is 15 in the year 1904. He dreams of leaving rural Indiana to become part of a large wheat-threshing crew in the Dakotas, but he's forced to stay in school, where his sister Tansy has just become the new teacher. Through the autumn, Russell observes the strange goings-on in the classroom, including a fight for Tansy's affection between a rough-and-tumble guy named Glenn and Russell's own best friend, Charlie. Russell resigns himself...