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Cover: Annie Quinn in America
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Annie Quinn in America

From the Series Adventures in Time

Annie Quinn knows that a new life in America is her only chance. In 1847, the only sure way to survive the potato famine is to leave Ireland. With her younger brother Thomas, twelve-year-old… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • ATOS: 5.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2001

Firestorm

From the Series Adventures in Time

It's September 1, 1894, and 13-year-old Maggie Grant and her family are about to face a terror like none they've ever experienced. Having recently moved to the newly constructed town of… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2002
Cover: Horse Sense: The Story of Will Sasse, His Horse Star, and the Outlaw Jesse James
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Horse Sense: The Story of Will Sasse, His Horse Star, and the Outlaw Jesse James

From the Series Adventures in Time

Will Sasse is sick of his pa's slow, careful ways. Pa says only sturdy workhorses are worth raising out in farm country. Will wants to raise beautiful pleasure horses like his mare, Star. So… Read More →

  • Lexile: 690
  • ATOS: 5.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2001

When the River Ran Backward

From the Series Adventures in Time

Fifteen-year-old Laurel Mawston has just moved to the Mississippi River town of New Madrid with her parents and brother when disaster strikes. A series of terrible earthquakes devastate New… Read More →

  • ATOS: 6.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2000

Born in the Year of Courage

From the Series Adventures in Time

It is the mid-1800s and Manjiro, a young fisherman, is shipwrecked far off the coast of his native Japan. At this time in history, Japan is an isolated country that allows its citizens no… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 1991

Between the Dragon and the Eagle

From the Series Adventures in Time

The author takes readers on a fascinating journey back to A.D. 100, where a bolt of sky blue silk is carried by successive caravans from China to Rome along the ancient Silk Road. The… Read More →

  • Lexile: 670
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 1996

Come Morning

From the Series Adventures in Time

Twelve-year-old Freedman and his father Nehemiah, a freed slave, make their living on a farm in Delaware during the 1850s. When Nehemiah is taken prisoner by slave-hunters in the Deep South,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 670
  • ATOS: 4.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 1995
Cover: The Girl-Son
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The Girl-Son

From the Series Adventures in Time

"What a pity she isn't a boy!" sighed Induk Pahk's father when he saw his new baby daughter. "Born under the powerful signs of the dragon and the tiger, a boy could have changed the world!"… Read More →

  • Lexile: 740
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 1995