Bethlehem Books: Intermediate Readers

Various ages 7-12

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3.8 stars
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Each succeeding spring brings a young Illinois boy closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War. Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
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4.8 stars
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Portrays the joys and troubles of five high-spirited Jewish sisters as they grow up in New York City.
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5 stars
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The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.
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5 stars
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The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle finds romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
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4.7 stars
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In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
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4.8 stars
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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4.3 stars
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Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. She now has a new baby on the way and ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again.
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4.4 stars
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Anne moves from Prince Edward Island, and goes off to Redmond College and finds new friends, new romances, and new insights into life and the people around her.
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4.2 stars
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Anne Shirley settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars and begins a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables as the principal of Summerside High School. Written as a series of letters to her fiance Gilbert Blythe.
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4 stars
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Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community.
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4.1 stars
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A young boy seeks revenge against the Romans for killing his parents, but is turned away from vengeance by Jesus.
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5 stars
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Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
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3.5 stars
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Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.

14. The cay

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4 stars
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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4.6 stars
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A little girl named Fern raises the little runt pig, Wilbur, only to have her father give him away. At his new home, Wilbur is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
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Danger and excitement await a vacationing brother and sister when they team up with local children to stop poachers in eastern England.
Dick and Dorothea Callum came to the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail. There, they run into the Coot Club Bird Protection Society―children who protect the local birds from thoughtless tourists.
Trouble begins when a coot’s nest is disturbed by a ship

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4.9 stars
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Describes the daily activities of nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who would grow up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as he lives with his family on a New York farm at the end of the nineteenth century.
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4.3 stars
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During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
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4.5 stars
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Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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3.3 stars
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The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.