United+States+Colonies

= United States Colonies = = = || **__ Blood on the river __** || || **Historical note**: This book showed how hard it was for the people in the New World. || Rachel Vietri
 * ^  || ** Carbone, Elisa ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book takes place on a boat on their way to James Town. They go from traveling on a boat to landing at James Town. They meet tribes and make peace with them. Then they start trade with the tribes to survive. They are there to find gold for the Virginia Company. The England people make a colony, but they don’t go with the way it was before, so a lot of people were killed and they all lose peace with the tribe. ||
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Mrs. Hampton ||^  ||
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 * || **Review**: I like how they all had to work together to survive the winters and not being killed by the ones that are not at peace with them. ||
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This book has Alchemy, a blend of magic and mystical philosophy. ||
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385903721/SC.JPG&client=sb022706&type=rx10 width="121" height="182" link="javascript:openCoverWindow('BookCoverViewer.do?url=http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385903721/LC.JPG&client=sb022706&type=rx10');"]] || **__ The Alchemyst __** ||
 * ^  || ** Michael Scott ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: In this book, The Alchemyst, there are two kids. They are just ordinary kids until May 31st. Sophie, the girl, works at a coffee shop. Her twin brother, Josh, works at a bookshop across the street. On May 31st a man shows up, his name, Dr. John Dee. That afternoon, Dr. John Dee comes into the bookshop, and he and the bookshop owner, the immortal Nicholas Flamel, battle it out. No, not an ordinary battle, a magic battle. Then the doctor tries to kill Sophie and Josh, but they escape. Will they destroy John Dee? Will he destroy them or Nicholas? ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: Kayla K.


 * Class**: H2 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked this book because it is descriptive without being annoying. ||
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 * [[image:http://www.coe.uga.edu/gcba/award/noms/images_book_06_07/breaker_boys.jpg width="177" height="282"]] || **__ The Breaker Boys __** ||
 * ^  || ** Author Pat Hughes ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: The Breaker Boys is about a boy named Nate who got kicked out of boarding school. Nate doesn’t have many friends expect some boys that are being mean to him. So, Nate goes to his berry picking patch and meets and boy, named Johnny, who works in Nate’s fathers mine. Nate and Johnny become fast friends. One thing Johnny can’t know who Nate really is and Johnny says goodbye while Nate goes to a school in Philadelphia. ||
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|| **Historical note**: Pennsylvania is one of the only states that mined Anthracite. Coal mines opened about 1745 in the United States. Archaeologists uncovered evidence that the Chinese used coal 3,000 years ago. Lewis and Clark discovered coal along the Mississippi River. ||
 * **Reviewed by**: Rachel W.


 * Class**: H3 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: what I liked about the book was that it talks about friendships, life back in the 1890’s and life when they had the breaker. ||
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|| **Historical note**: 1881- Broken Bow, Nebraska. It was very hard to earn money, especially if you were a child still. ||
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0590438107/SC.JPG&client=sb022706&type=rx10 width="66" height="99" caption="For more information about this title, click here." link="http://library.tvsd.org/InfoCentre/MoreInfoDisplay.do?id=1"]] || **__ My Face to the Wind:The Diary of Sarah Jane Price,A Praire Teacher __** ||
 * ^  || ** Jim Murphy ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: Sarah’s father died and she only had a little bit of money left in his fund to be able to pay rent at the house that she was staying in. When she began looking for a job she heard that Broken Bow was looking for a teacher. The school board didn’t think that Sarah could do it because she was so young but she knew she could because her father was a teacher before he died and he taught her a lot of things. The school board let her be the teacher, and she continued to teach for the rest of her life. ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: Claudia P.


 * Class**: H2 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked the way that the book was set up in diary form. ||
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|| **Historical note**: 1899’s – The Finnish people came over and lived along the Nasel River. There were always boys born on the Nasel River and when a girl was born they thought she was a miracle. ||
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0060283548/MC.JPG&client=sb022706&type=rx10 link="javascript:openCoverWindow('BookCoverViewer.do?isbn=0060283548');"]] || **__ Our Only May Amelia __** ||
 * ^  || ** Jennifer L. Holm ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: May Amelia was the only girl born on the Nasel River until her little sister Amy was born. May Amelia had to take care of Amy because her mother was older and it was hard for her to have children. Amy ment the world to May so when she died she was crushed. Her Grandmother Patience blamed it on May and she went crazy. She moved in with her Aunt and wouldn’t come back. Then when her grandmother died she came back to the family to help around the house. Now that Grandmother Patience is dead May doesn’t mind coming home. ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: Claudia P.


 * Class**: H2 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked the events that happened in this book. I also liked the way the book was written so that it wasn’t boring but it still had facts in it. ||
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On a spring day in 1758 Mary Jemison and her family were taken captives by the Indians. Later on the Indians take Mary, and he little brother away from the rest of the family. After long days her and her brother were separated. Mary is taken to a Seneca village to live with them. Her life as an Indian girl is hard and hurtful. One day she gets a choice to go home. What will her answer be? || This book is based on a real story in 1758 how a little girl had to travel from Marsh creek to Genishau where the Seneca’s live. She went to fort Duquesne, and she lived in a Seneca town next to river Ohio for a while. || Alexis .R
 * [[image:http://www.usedbooks.co.nz/images/Book/0064461629.jpg width="142" height="207"]] || **__ Indian Captive __** ||
 * ^  || ** Lois Lenski ** ||
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I liked everything about this book I liked the adventure, visuals it provided, and how I felt like I was there and feeling her emotions. ||
 * Class**: H2 ||^  ||
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