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Item Nr: B 123651 Title: Liberty
Grade Lvl: PIJ Author: Larson, Kirby
Length: 221 Prod/Pub: Scholastic Press
Copyright: 2016 Series:
Book Type: FC Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children. Historical fiction. Series: Dogs of World War II. IL 3-7. AR 4.4. Lexile 640. Iowa Children's Choice 2018-2019.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  579 - DISABILITIES
  858 - DISABILITIES--PHYSICAL/PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
  402 - DISEASES
  403 - DOGS
  404 - DOGS--STORIES
  534 - FRIENDSHIP
  1992 - GRADE 5 (RANDOM ORDER)
  1993 - GRADE 6 (RANDOM ORDER)
  1545 - GUIDED READING LEVEL Y
  591 - HISTORICAL FICTION
  1676 - LEXILE 600-699
  696 - LOUISIANA
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  1187 - WORLD WAR II, 1939-1945