Eric Freeberg
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"When a stiff-necked teacher with staunch views against the Chinese moves to Emma Fong's mining town of La Porte, California, she'll have to rely on her wits and the strength of her people to survive his anti-Asian prejudice and stake her claim as an American in the Wild West"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In 1951 Alba, New Mexico, when her father forbids her from pursuing her dream of performing Mexican ballads as a "corridisto" and participating on the picket line because she is a girl, twelve-year-old Ana Maria finds a way to help during the long strike for better working and living conditions for the miners at Empire Zinc.
5) Greek myths
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
From Icarus's legendary flight to Orpheus's trip to the underworld,this edition introduces young readers to classic Greek myths.
7) The odyssey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged retelling of Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son scheme to protect his throne.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The book tells how two curious children and their grandparents re-create eclipses in their living room using a lamp, a tennis ball, two Hula Hoops, and Ping-Pong balls. Later, in the backyard and around the house, the family explores safe ways to view a solar eclipse and ponders phenomena from sunspots to phases of the Moon. When the Sun Goes Dark gives children and adults hands-on techniques for learning the science behind eclipses of the Sun and...
16) Moby-Dick
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.