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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Growing up in Alaska in the 1970s isn't like growing up anywhere else : Don't think life is going to be easy. Know your place. And never talk about yourself. Four vivid voices tell intertwining stories of hardship, tragedy, wild luck, and salvation"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
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Finishing school volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students,the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In an effort to impress a female classmate, high school sophomore Jack Perdu endangers both of their lives by taking her to New York City's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on.
7) Fools' gold
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tasked to expose a coin counterfeiting scheme, Luca and Isolde, whose romantic attraction continues to grow, travel to Venice in 1454, where they meet an alchemist who plans to create the Philosopher's Stone, a mystical substance said to be capable of turning base metals into gold and producing the elixir of life.
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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When Mary Quinn is ordered to work undercover after a petty thief steals from Buckingham Palace, she receives attention from a prince, wonders at a murder suspect's shared name with her father, and struggles with her feelings for James Easton.
9) Saints
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Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Vibiana, an unwanted fourth child, finds her name and identity in Christianity, but with the Boxer Rebellion in full swing and Chinese Christians facing death, she must decide whether her loyalties lie with her religion or her country.
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Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. 11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets… Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s father, a girl named Ama, and,...
12) Changeling
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends theboundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
13) Chasing Orion
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung.
14) Stormbringers
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Luca and Isolde continue their journey searching for evil in medieval Christendom.
15) Dragonswood
Author
Series
Wilde Island chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1192 A.D. on Wilde Island, Tess, the daughter of a cruel blacksmith, is accused of witchcraft and must flee, but when she meets a handsome and enigmatic warden of Dragonswood who offers her shelter, she does not realize that he too harbors a secret that may finally bring about peace among the races of dragon, human, and fairy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In 1889 London, vampire-hunter Evaline Stoker and investigator Mina Holmes once again join forces at the request of the Princess of Wales--this time their mission is to escort and protect a princess who is part of a trade mission from Betrovia, a country which has had a rocky relationship with England, starting with a four hundred-year-old dispute over a valuable Byzantine chessboard.
17) The season
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical notes.
20) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
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