Laura Elliott
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sam's friend Mary Ann helps him make a special valentine for Tiffany, but when Tiffany does not even notice it, Sam realizes who is really special. Includes facts about the history of Valentine's Day.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Hunter and Stripe, two raccoons who are best friends, play on opposing soccer teams, they must figure out a way to keep the competition on the field from spoiling their friendship.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, from May 1774 to December 1775, as he serves his indentureship with a music teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, and witnesses the growing rift between patriots and loyalists, culminating in the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When nineteen-year-old fighter pilot Henry Forester comes home from France in 1945 after enduring capture, torture, and a dangerous escape from the Gestapo, he realizes that he will not be able to fully heal until he returns to a war-ravaged France to find the young boy who helped him survive.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Peggy Schuyler finds herself a central figure amid Loyalists and Patriots, spies and traitors, friends and family. Among those friends, she develops a relationship with Alexander Hamilton, who becomes romantically involved with her sister, Eliza.
10) Walls
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her father after Black Tuesday, thirteen-year-old Bea convinces Mrs. Scott to take in her and her sister in exchange for farm work and Bea bonds with a seemingly untrainable horse.
12) Da Vinci's tiger
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In fifteenth-century Florence, the dashing Venetian ambassador commissions young Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his Platonic love, Ginevra de' Benci, a well-educated, teenaged poet in a passionless marriage, propelling her into the world of art, politics, and romance, with all of its complications.
13) Suspect red
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an extremely serious--and often seriously neglected--condition. Despite around 4 million diagnoses in the USA, BPD has attracted lower funding and levels of clinical concern than more "popular" conditions such as bipolar disorder. But there's no need to lose hope! Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies, 2nd Edition was written to bridge this gap and help sufferers learn how to break the cycle to lead...