AJHS Literature Sets

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Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

• While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.

• 80 perma-bound copies• Used by History Alive

AR 5.1 P 7.0

Sign of the Chrysanthemum

• A teen-ager comes to know himself through contacts with social ills and political unrest while searching for his father in Japan's capital, centuries ago.

• 104 Perma-bound copies• unused

AR 5.6 P 5.0

Famous Tales of Mystery and Horror

• A collection of thirteen mystery and horror tales written by the American author, including “Telltale Heart" and “Masque of the Red Death."

• 36 paperback• unused

Take AR quizzes for each short story

Ten Little Indians (retitled And then there were none)

• Ten strangers meet on an Indian Island - the guest of a diabolical killer who has marked them as prisoners and as prey.

• 56 paper back

AR 5.7 P 8.0

Path of the pale horse

• 1793 Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia.

• 13 perma-bound copies

• Out of print• Unused

AR 6.3 P 5.0

Witch of Blackbird Pond

• Puritan neighbors regard Kit Tyler with suspicion, fear, and anger, when she befriends an old woman accused of witchcraft.

• 35 perma-bound, 24 Paperback

• Rarely used

AR 5.7 P 9.0

Johnny Tremaine

• Follows a young apprentice from a tragic accident in a silversmith's shop to his dramatic involvement as a patriot in the days just before the American Revolution.

• 40 perma-bound copies• Unused

AR 5.9 P 13.0

Time Enough for Drums

• A young girl learns about love, loyalty, and patriotism while growing up during the Revolutionary War.

• 35 Perma-bound• Unused

AR 4.4 P 9.0

Bloody Country

• In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states

• 15 Perma-bound• UnusedAR 5.2 P 6.0

Slave Dancer

• Spellbinding novel of suspense and survival as young Jessie, a musician, is hired to play for the slaves aboard a ship bound for America.

• 80 perma-bound copies

• Occasionally used by Diana BaileyAR 6.0 L 6.0

Shane

• In the summer of 1889, a mysterious and charismatic man rides into a small Wyoming valley, where he joins homesteaders who take a stand against a bullying cattle rancher, and where he changes the lives of a young boy and his parents.

• 35 Paperback• Unused

AR 5.5 P 7.0

Bold Journey with Lewis and Clark

• Private Hugh McNeal relates his experiences accompanying Captains Lewis and Clark on their search for a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean.

• 15 Perma-Bound• Unused

AR 5.5 P 6.0

Across Five Aprils

• The story of a young boy, his family, and his neighbors who live in a backwoods Illinois community during the period of the Civil War.

• 49 Perma-Bound Copies

• Unused

AR 6.6 P 10.0

Prairie Songs

• Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful but tragically frail wife.

• 25 Perma-Bound• Used by Mrs.

MegordanAR 5.3 P 5.0

Charlie Skedaddle

• Charley is a member of one of the toughest gangs in New York City. When his older brother is killed at Gettysburg, Charley vows revenge against the Confederates. So he joins the Union Army as a drummer boy.

• 15 Perma-bound• Unused

AR 5.2 P 167.0

Behind Rebel Lines

• This biography recounts the story of the Canadian woman who disguised herself as a man and slipped behind Confederate lines to spy for the Union army.

• 15 perma-bound• Unused

AR 5.7 P 3.0

Year Down Yonder

• In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.

• 12 perma-bound copies• Used by Diana BaileyAR 4.5 P 4.0

To the Edge of the World

• In 1519, after the death of his parents, fourteen-year-old Mateo Macias becomes cabin boy to Ferdinand Magellan on a dangerous journey in search of a route to the fabled Spice Islands.

• 25 perma-bound• Used by Karen Elerick

AR 5.0 P 9.0

A True & Faithful Narrative

• In London in the 1680s, sixteen-year-old Meg tries to decide whether to marry either of the two men who court her, taking into account both love and her writing ambitions.

• 10 perma-bound • New, unused, planned by

Karen Elerick

AR 5.9 P 10.0

And Nothing but the Truth

• A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

• 35 copies, unknown binding

• New, unused

AR 3.6 P 4.0

Homecoming/La familia Tillerman busca hogar

• Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

• 31 English perma-bound copies

• 15 Spanish perma bound

• Last used by Eileen Dressler

AR 4.4 P 16.0

House of Dies Drear

• A mystery about a young black boy's house, which had once played a part in the Underground Railway.

• 116 paperback copies• 35 unknown binding• Rare use, last use by

Jenna Etemad-Lehmer

AR 4.8 P 9.0

Old Yeller

• A thousand adventures of a boy and his dog in the wilderness.

• 34 paperback copies• Unused

AR 5.0 P5.0

Call of the Wild

• The story of the sled dog Buck, who was mistreated by his master and broke free to roam the Alaskan wilderness.

• 43 perma-bound• Last used by Eileen

DresslerAR 8.0 P 7.0

Where the Red Fern Grows

• A boy and his two dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann, go through adventure and tragedy in the Ozark Mountain Valley.

• 71 Perma-bound copies

• Annual use by 7th grade

AR 4.9 P 11.0

Hound of the Baskervilles

• Sherlock Holmes and Watson set out to solve the mystery that had haunted the Baskerville family for years and had recently occurred again.

• 36 perma-bound• Unused

AR 8.3 P 11.0

Sounder

• An angry young black boy is transformed by his relationship with his devoted dog, Sounder, and changes his own life by learning to read.

• 26 paperback copies• unused

AR 5.3 P 3.0

The Cay

• A fine portrayal of how a boy makes his separate peace with race prejudice.

• 51 perma-bound• 52 paperback• unused

AR 5.3 P 4.0

Dragonwings

• Beautiful story of Moon Shadow and his father Windrider, a Chinese immigrant who made a flying machine in 1909.

• 31 perma-bound copies

• Rarely used, Last used by Leslie Smith

AR 5.3 P 1.0

How the west was won

• An epic of human courage and endurance that chronicles the saga of the men and women who pushed relentlessly to win the west.

• 13 Perma-bound• unused

AR 6.3 P 15.0

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

• The story of a young boy's adventures in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town.

• 69 perma-bound copies

• Unused

AR 8.1 P 12.0 AR 3.1 P 2.0

No Promises in the Wind

• A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the Depression.

• 27 Perma-bound copies

• unusedAR 5.6 P 8.0

Julie of the Wolves

• While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

AR 5.8 P 6.0

My side of the Mountain

• A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

• 25 perma-bound• 10 (well used) paperback• Used by Asturies

AR 5.2 P 6.0

Zlateh the Goat

• Seven tales from middle European folklore told by the Nobel Laureate and illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

• 39 perma-boun• 8 spanish• unused

AR 5.2 P 2.0

Rumble Fish

• Rusty-James's main desire is to follow in the footsteps of his older brother and become a gang leader but eventually an event occurs which he cannot handle.

• 12 Paperback• UnusedAR 4.1 P 3.0

Rosa Blanca

• In Nazi Germany a young girl risks her life to give food to concentration camp prisoners.

• Spanish only• 18 hard back

AR 3.2 P 0.5

Fahrenheit 451

• Orwellian-like fantasy about a society in which all books must be burned

• 69 perma-bound copies

• Used annually by Jenna Etemad-Lehmer

AR 5.2 P 7.0

The Hobbit

• The delightful tale which first creates the fantasy called Middle Earth and its charming dwarf-like creatures, the Hobbits

• 33 Perma-bound• Unused

AR 6.6 P16.0

Stone Fox

• Rooted in Rocky Mountain legend, this is the story of a 10-year-old boy and legendary Indian, each determined to win a race and a prize.

• 14 Paperback• Unused

AR 4.0 P 1.0

Endless Steppe

• A true story of courage about a family exiled to Siberia

• 62 Perma-bound• 14 paperback• Unused

AR 6.3 P 10.0

Secret of the Andes

• An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.

• 18 perma-bound copies

• Used by Latin SpiceAR 4.7 P 5.0

Corn Grows Ripe

• Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatan, must learn to be a man when his father is injured

• 16 Perma-bound copies

• Used by Latin SpiceAR 4.7 P 2.0

Esperanza Rising

• Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

• 18 perma-bound copies• Used by Latin SpiceAR 5.3 P 6.0

Colibri

• Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember

• 20 perma-bound• Used by Latin SpiceAR 4.6 P 7.0

The Giver

• The Elders of the Committee choose Jonas to be the person responsible for receiving and keeping all the memories of the past--a huge task for this exceptional boy.

• 50 paperback• 75 perma-bound (on

order)• Used annually by 8th

gradeAR 5.7 P 7.0

Outsiders

• An impassioned teenage author tells it like it is with the long-haired kids from the wrong side of the tracks.

• 61 perma-bound• 6 paperback• 75 perma-bound (on

order)• Used annually by 8th

gradeAR 4.7 P 7.0

Photo-Illustrated Biography Set

• Interesting, Hi-Low, fact-filled account of the lives of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ben Franklin & Thomas Jefferson.

• 10 copies each title• Used by Cara Oklin

Thomas JeffersonNo photo available

AR 4.7 P 0.5

AR 3.8 P 0.5

AR 4.1 P 0.5

Miracle Worker

• A text of the play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan’s attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.

• 84 perma-bound copies

• Used annually by 7th grade

AR 5.2 P 4.0

King’s Shadow

• Historical novel set in early Britain about a Welsh serf who becomes a squire to King Harold.

• 45 perma-bound copies

• Annual middle ages lit circle

AR 6.6 P 12.0

Road to Damietta

• Deeply attached to the charming and carefree Francis Bernardone, Cecilia, a young noblewoman of Assisi, watches as he turns from his life of wealth and privilege, takes vows of poverty, and devotes himself to serving God by helping all those around him.

• 39 Perma-bound• Annual middle ages lit circle

AR 6.3 P 12.0

Adam of the Road

• In 13th century England, an 11-year-old minstrel boy searches for his father and lost dog.

• 37 perma bound • Annual middle ages lit

circle

AR 6.5 P 9.0

Catherine Called Birdy

• The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

• 15 paperback• 85 Perma-bound• Annual middle ages lit

circleAR 6.4 P 8.0

Walking Drum

• Kerbouchard is a seeker of knowledge and fame on a journey that will take him across the Europe and Asia of the twelfth century.

• 35 perma-bound• Annual Middle Ages

lit circlesAR 6.3 P 21.0

Midwife’s apprentice

• In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

• 20 Perma-bound• 33 paperback• Annual middle ages lit

circleAR 6.0 P 3.0

Forest Wife

• Retelling of the Robin Hood story from the view point of a 15 year old girl.

• 41 perma-bound copies

• Annual middle ages lit circle

AR 5.5 P 7.0

Prairie Song

• Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.

• ? Perma-bound copies• Used by Susan

Megordan

AR 5.3 P5.0

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland

• "Alice in Wonderland was first published in 1865"--T.p. verso. A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

• 33 perma-bound• 34 great illustrated

classic

AR 5.7 P 3.0 AR 7.8 P 10.0

HI-Low Lit Set

• 15 perma-bound each title

• Historical fiction• Out of Print• Used annually by

Diana Bailey

The AnimalsNo photo available AR 3.8 P 1.0

Dream of the DeadNo photo availableAR 2.7 P 1.0

Colony of FearNo photo availableAR 4.0 P 1.0

So Wild a DreamNo photo availableAR 3.3 P 1.0

AR 4.4 P 1.0

Adventures of Tom SawyerNo photo availableAR 3.2 P 1.0

Cuando hitler robo el Conejo Rosa

• Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England

• Spanish Only• 18 perma-bound• unused

In my father’s house & related readings

• A historical novel dealing with the Civil War and with the MacLean family who witnessed both the war's first battle and the peace agreement.

• 35 hard back copies• unused

AR 4.4 P 10.0

The Middle Ages 350-1450

• No Photo Available• Not on AR

• Explores key people and events through authentic, hi interest, narratives

• 70 Hardback copies• unused

The Renaissance 1300-1600

• No image available• Not on AR

• Explores key people and events through authentic, hi interest, narratives.

• 70 hardback copies

Reformation and Enlightenment 1500-1800

• No Photo Available• Not on AR

• Explores key people and events through authentic, hi interest, narratives

• 35 hardback copies

A nation dividing: 1800-1860

• No Image available• Not on AR

• Explores key people and events through authentic, hi interest, narratives

• 70 hard back• unused

A Changing America 1865-1900

• No photo available• Not on AR

• Explores key people and events through authentic, hi interest, narratives

• 70 Hardback copies• unused

Native American Perspectives

• No Photo Available• Not on AR

• Explores key people and events through authentic, hi interest, narratives.

• 35 Copies• unused