Kathryn Lasky
1) The capture
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Soren, a barn owl, arrives at St. Aggie's, a school for orphaned owls, he suspects trouble and with his new friend, a clever elf owl named Gylfie, embarks on a perilous journey to save all owls from the danger at St. Aggie's.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
4) The journey
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
It began as a dream, a quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kingdom.
5) The rescue
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"Even though Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now Eglantine is back in Soren's life, but she's been through an ordeal too terrible for words. And Ezylryb, Soren's mentor, has disappeared ... In order to rescue him, Soren must embark upon a perilous quest."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
9) Watch wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Faolan, poised to take his place as a member of the revered Wolves of the Watch, may be the only one who can stop Dunbar MacHeath and his clan from provoking a war between the Watch and the bears.
10) The siege
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Enraged by his clash with Soren and driven by and all-consuming desire for power, Kludd and his group, the Pure Ones, launch an attack upon the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The noble owls who live there must fight fiercely to protect their resources and defend their honor"--Page 4 of cover.
11) Shadow wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
After earning the right to return to the wolf pack that abandoned him, the exiled Faolan joins the clan as a lowly "gnaw wolf," but his goal of rising in the pack order is threatened when a jealous rival frames him for an unspeakable crime.
12) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
13) The shattering
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Soren's sister, Eglantine, si falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Then, just as Soren notices her trancelike state, Eglantine disappears, and the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole in terrible danger."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes historical notes on Jahanara's later life and on the Mogul Empire.
16) The escape
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.
18) Chasing Orion
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies in this compelling novel by a best-selling author. Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction movies, but she won't be going to the theater anytime soon. It's a hot Indiana summer in 1952, and public places from pools to camps are closing to slow the spread of polio. Despite all the headlines, Georgie never thought she'd
...19) Light on bone
Author
Series
Georgia O'Keeffe mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Lasky has written an exciting new adult amateur sleuth mystery set in New Mexico in the 1930s. The sleuth is Georgia O'Keefe, who actually did suffer a nervous breakdown in 1933 when her husband Alfred Stieglitz had a somewhat public affair, was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment, and then traveled to the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico to paint. O'Keefe was approaching the peak of her fame and success, having just sold a painting for a record...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.