Diane Stanley
1) Michelangelo
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.
Author
Series
Time-traveling twins volume 3
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, visit Plymouth Plantation to see how the Pilgrims lived and to celebrate a big feast with the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
5) Cleopatra
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
©1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra was not the renowned beauty of legend-her strength lay in her intelligence, courage, and charm, and she would need all three in her short and perilous reign. She became Queen of Egypt at eighteen and by twenty had been driven from her throne. But she raised an army and won the support of the great Julius Caesar, who helped her return to rule. In the note on sources, the authors indicate that much of the information about Cleopatra has been...
6) Joan of Arc
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
©1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jane wishes she were more like her friend Pyg the sculptor until Pyg's statue of a beautiful goddess comes to life and teaches them both to be careful what they wish for. Based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charles Dickens is one of the world's greatest and best loved writers. To read Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, or Nicholas Nickleby is to be drawn into a society that still seems fresh and real today: nineteenth-century London with its extraordinary extremes of wealth, progress, poverty, and despair. Dickens captures it all in plots that are by turns wildly comical, wonderfully melodramatic, and tragic to the point of tears. In his writing...
10) The silver bowl
Author
Series
Silver bowl trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.
Author
Series
Silver bowl trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"With tensions rising between the kingdoms of Westria and Austlind, Molly and Tobias accompany King Alaric to Cortova, where he hopes to form an alliance with the powerful King Gonzalo--an alliance that would be sealed by Alaric's marriage to Gonzalo's daughter, the beautiful princess Elizabetta"--
12) Second sleep
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Max and his sister Rose go to visit their grandmother's lakeside vacation home, they soon discover that their nightly sleeps bring them to a timelocked place with kids from all different eras, united by their love of the lake--and Max begins to wonder if they can help him to find his missing mother.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Forty years before the boy was born, a horde of bloodthirsty barbarians thundered out of the west and conquered his native land. They had succeeded because his people, ever at war with one another, had not fought together to defend their cities. In time the boy was destined to become the very leader that was needed, a man with the courage and vision to unite his people and face the most fearsome and brilliant warrior of the age. The time was the twelfth...