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1) The Lie Tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates. Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1807, having survived a typhoon in the East Indies, Jacky Faber makes her way to London to seek a pardon for herself and her betrothed, Jaimy Fletcher, who, posing as a highwayman, is trying to avenge her supposed death.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The day after Mighty Casey's strikeout, the Mudville Nine are in a crucial game when a relief pitcher -- a girl -- is sent in and quickly proves herself to the crowd using moves from football, tennis, and soccer.
Author
Series
Grace and fury volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nomi Tessaro joins her sister, Serina, on the volcanic prison island of Mount Ruin for a fight to usher in a new age of freedom for all.
Author
Publisher
Whitman
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Lizzie writes to her mother, who is deployed overseas during wartime, and includes maps that show her mother what Lizzie has been thinking and doing. Includes nonfiction tips for helping children of military families.
10) Boston jacky
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide. With big dreams and perhaps too much exuberance for the Puritan populace, she quickly finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and a town roiling over the arrival of hundreds of Irish laborers, brought in on Jacky's Lorelei Lee.
11) Rites of passage
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Accepting a dare issued by her brother before his death, sixteen-year-old Sam McKenna joins the first-ever class of girls at a military academy and finds herself targeted by brutal male classmates whose actions are prompted by a secret society.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.
13) Born to fly
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1942, an eleven-year-old girl who longs to be a pilot and her family try to manage their lives in Rhode Island when the father goes to fight in World War II.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now rich, Jacky Faber has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic, and believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, she docks in London, where she is arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
17) Nightingale
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
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Description
At seventeen, June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be--independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. But her parents only care about making June a better young woman. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, her whole...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899. It's particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just can't seem to abide her family's insistence that she behave like a Proper Young Lady. She's sure she could do better if only there were at least one other girl living along the banks of the Nasel River. And now that Mama's...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Feminism is for everyone, even boy babies.
"Feminist Baby shoots for the sky,Feminist Baby knows it's OK to cry! Feminist Baby Boy loves learning, loves being himself, and knows the importance of being in touch with his feelings. This witty and important board book celebrates the joys of modern childhood while teaching that feminism is for everyone."--
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
n 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.
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