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1) Freckles
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Believing herself to be a frontier child in 1840, Jessie is shocked when her mother reveals a secret--it's really 1996. After a diphtheria outbreak strikes the village children, Jessie must venture out into the modern world where she faces a wealth of confusing 20th century innovations and the sinister man who will stop at nothing to make sure the village residents remain locked in their 19th century world.
4) Honey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Formats
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
11) Rosetown summer
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
In 1973, Flora loves living in the quiet town of Rosetown, Indiana, where change is not constant, but life takes a decided turn during the summer between fourth and fifth grades.
12) Rosetown
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.
13) Pixie pushes on
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.
Author
Series
Viola Chesterton books volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film--her first.
15) Snitchers
Author
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city, but when the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Moving from Cleveland to Lancaster, Indiana, Annie Marck transformed into teenage royalty by entering Lancaster High on the arm of Henry, the king of the school. He's the jock, the genius and the brooding bad boy all in one. Which sort of explains why he's on his sixth girlfriend in two years. What it doesn't explain is why two of them are dead. Annie is determined to find out what really happened to Lancaster's dead queens-- ideally before history...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Paige Hancock starts junior year with a list of ways to take back her life, rather than spending another year as "The Girl Whose Boyfriend Drowned," and finding out that Ryan Chase, her long-term crush, is available again might be the key.
Author
Series
American chillers volume 9
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
When two children discover thousands of iron insects about to descend upon Elkhart, Indiana, they race against the clock to uncover the secret of the bizarre bugs and try stop them before they terrorize the entire city.
20) Right behind you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but not only has trouble fitting in, he finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.