Carolyn Meyer
Author
Series
Young royals volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
Author
Series
Young royals volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later.
Author
Series
Young royals volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.
Author
Series
Young royals volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.
13) Denny's tapes
Author
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
When seventeen-year-old Denny, who is black, falls in love with his white stepsister and her father throws him out, he drives cross-country to find his own father, whom he barely knows.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Growing up, Peggy White intended to become a herpetologist, but while she was still in college her interest she became fascinated with photography. Her focus widened from landscape architecture to shots of factories, trains, and bridges. Her artist's eye sharpened to see patterns and harsh beauty where others saw only chaos and ugliness. Margaret Bourke-White was the first female war photojournalist in World War II and the first female photographer...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
18) White lilacs
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In eighteenth-century Europe, Anna"Nannerl" Mozart, a musician whose talent and dedication is overshadowed by that of her gifted younger brother, Wolfgang, struggles to win the notice of her father and patrons who might further her career, despite her gender.