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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
Author
Series
Magic most foul saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Jonathan's soul is trapped in a painting by dark magic, his possessed body commits unspeakable crimes in the slums of 1882 New York City, and only by luring Natalie Stewart into the painting can they free his damaged soul.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Queen Victoria has a problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a domestic in the royal household and fending off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales are challenge enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder in an opium den -- and scandal threatens the royal family -- Mary learns that the accused killer may be someone very close...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written by quintessential American humor writer Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper offers an extraordinarily insightful glimpse into the British system of social classes. Although the novel was intended for children and young adults, it's a rollicking read for all fans of engrossing fiction.
5) Boxers
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
328 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1898 China, Little Bao has had enough of foreign missionaries and soldiers robbing peasants, and he recruits an army of Boxers to fight to free China from its oppressors.
6) Yonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940. Now, with his father away fighting in World War II and his mother about to have a new baby, Danny relies on Jack's friendship and guidance more than ever. So when Jack goes missing without a trace from their small Appalachian town, Danny is determined to find him. He wonders if Jack's abusive father could be behind his...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Count of Flanders flees in a rage when his newborn child is not the expected male heir -- but a girl. Marguerite growing up under the disapproving eye of her heartless father learns to survive in the violent male world of the Middle Ages. Will she be able to resist the combined presure of politics, power and a foreign prince?
10) Minesweeper
Author
Series
Special Forces volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fergus Frew thought he knew what to expect when he signed up with the Navy's demolitions team. But as the Korean War rages on, Fergus and his fellow divers -- a.k.a. "frogmen" -- are tasked with more than just scouting mudflats. Soon they're planting mines. And sabotaging tunnels, bridges... and even fishing nets. Scariest of all, it falls to Fergus to discover where the enemy has placed their mines, a job as painstaking as it is dangerous. But frogmen...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
vi, 250 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel based on the true story of Clara Estby's walk across America with her mother Helga, to save their farm with the ten thousand dollars promised by a New York City publisher-- if they can do it in eight months.
12) Criss cross
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
13) The Revenant
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Willie arrives in Indian Territory, she knows only one thing: no one can find out who she really is. To escape a home she doesn't belong in anymore, she assumes the name of a former classmate and accepts a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary.
Nothing prepares her for what she finds there. Her pupils are the daughters of the Cherokee elite—educated and more wealthy than she, and the school is cloaked in mystery. A student drowned...
Nothing prepares her for what she finds there. Her pupils are the daughters of the Cherokee elite—educated and more wealthy than she, and the school is cloaked in mystery. A student drowned...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Quinn has a lot on her mind. James Easton, her longtime love interest, wants to marry her; but despite her feelings, independent-minded Mary hesitates. Meanwhile, the Agency has asked Mary to take on a dangerous case: convicted fraudster Henry Thorold is dying in prison, and Mary must watch for the return of his estranged wife, an accomplished criminal herself who has a potentially deadly grudge against James. Finally, a Chinese prizefighter...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Lorenzo, a young autistic boy who loves flamingos, becomes friends with a Roma girl who teaches him to ride a carousel, their town is invaded by German soldiers and everything seems threatened, but Lorenzo comes to realize that there are people in the town he can trust.
17) How do you live?
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, fifteen-year-old Copper struggles to confront inevitable and enormous change after his father's death and his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and advice in 1937 Japan.
18) Death cloud
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain.
19) The orphan king
Author
Series
Merlin's immortals volume 1
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The last words of a dying woman would change the life of young Thomas. Raised behind monastery walls, he knows nothing of his mysterious past or imminent destiny. But now, in the heart of medieval England, a darkness threatens to strangle truth. An ancient order tightens their ghostly grip on power, creating fear and exiling those who would oppose them. Thomas is determined fulfill his calling and bring light into the mysterious world of the Druids...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
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