Jamila Gavin
2) Coram boy
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In the mid-eighteenth century, an unsavory character and his simpleton son become involved in the lives of a wealthy English family when that family's eldest son is disinherited because of his love of music.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
4) See no evil
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nettie's sheltered and privileged life changes after her beloved tutor mysteriously disappears and Nettie, aided by the son of a household employee, begins to learn the truth about her father, whose wealth began with trafficking in illegal aliens.