Pegi Deitz Shea
1) Abe in Arms
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Series
Description
A senior in high school, Abe's got a Division I track scholarship awaiting him, a hot girlfriend, and a loving and wealthy adoptive family, including a brother his age. But suddenly, horrific flashbacks and seizures rip him back five-years ago to war-torn Africa, where he lost his mother, his sister, his friends, and almost his own life to torturous violence. In therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Abe uncovers even darker moments that make...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
One of the most important patriots in post-Revolutionary times. Most readers know Noah Webster for his dictionary masterpieces and his promotion of a living "American Language" that embraces words and idioms from all its immigrant peoples. But he was also the driving force behind universal education for all citizens, including slaves, females, and adult learners. Speaker of twenty languages, he developed the new country's curriculum, writing and publishing...
4) New moon
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Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young child looks for the moon on a dark winter night.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Almost 100 years after the American Revolution, Abby and Julia Smith were fighting against taxation without representation. Women hadn't been given the vote, and the Smith sisters refused to pay an unfair property tax that they had no voice in establishing. When the authorities confiscated their cows, the Smiths bought them back at auction, thus paying what they owed without paying their taxes. The cows were seized at tax time for a number of years,...