Barry Denenberg
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Twelve-year-old Amber Billows, upset to be moving once again to follow her father's reporting job, cannot help loving Hawaii, but the peace of her tropical paradise is shattered on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
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In 399 B.C. in Athens, thirteen-year-old Pandora dreads her upcoming marriage to a man twice her age, but a chance meeting with the philosopher Socrates encourages her to question traditional female roles and to seek her own truth.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Denenberg presents the complete story of Anne Frank and her family's life, from Frankfurt, Germany, where Anne and Margot were born before the war, up through to their murders at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. When the Franks leave Frankfurt for Amsterdam, they are hoping to find a place where they can resume a normal life, but instead, the family's freedoms are taken away bit by bit. But it is when they see that other Jews are being taken...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In ancient Rome, Atticus, a young slave purchased by a wealthy and powerful lawyer, finds that he is completely invisible to the people from whom he must gather information in order to help foil a plot against the Emperor.
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2008.
Description
A biography of Abraham Lincoln presented in the form of a scrapbook dated one year after his assassination, with faux newspaper clippings and accounts of Lincoln's childhood, marriage, presidency, Civil War leadership, and shooting, as well as the capture and execution of the conspirators involved in his death.