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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious fascist commando who answers directly to “Il Duce” Mussolini himself. Their unbelievable escape, told by Mark Felton in Castle of the Eagles, is a little-known...
Author
Series
Pagan chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After fighting the infidels in Jerusalem in 1188, Lord Roland and his squire Pagan return to Roland's castle in France where they encounter violent family feuds and religious heretics.
Author
Series
Rookskill Castle volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With tensions in Prague rising at the height of World War II, Isaac Wolf is forced to leave home with nothing more than a small backpack and a pendant in the shape of an eternity knot. His parents believe the pendant will keep him safe--if he can discover what it really means. This clue leads him to Rookskill Castle, home of the Special Alternative Intelligence Unit where gifted children can learn to harness their powers to support the Allies' cause....
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family’s castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Poppy, once and for all. 1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York’s gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle;...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today it stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday--from 1892 to 1924--coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. Historian Vincent J. Cannato...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances. They survive by miraculously escaping, but their shared past haunts and shapes their lives forever. Years later, Zalman plows a future on a Minnesota farm. In Brooklyn, Jacob has a new life with his wife, Esther. When Zalman travels to New York City to reconnect, Jacob's hopes for the future are becoming a reality. With Zalman's help, they build a house for...
Author
Publisher
Miller's
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Judith Miller takes on the 20th century with this new, expansive handbook for both beginning and established collectors. Modern design is beautiful, functional, idiosyncratic, increasing in value, and still relatively affordable. Now, Judith Miller introduces a extensive sourcebook, written specifically for the 20th century collector. From the birth of modern design, through modernism, art deco, mid-century modern, and the post-modern and contemporary...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats, unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence. The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very different circumstances, who must come to terms with a city in painful recovery....
Author
Series
Oracles of Delphi Keep volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The Curse of Deadman's Forest is the second book in the Oracles of Delphi Keepa series with all the timeless charm of classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and all the action-packed adventure of a modern middle-grade blockbuster. Since Ian Wigby and his sister, Theodosia, found the silver treasure box and the prophecy within it, their world has changed. There's no denying what they discovered in Morocco: a powerful evil is budding, and to defeat...
17) I, Claudius
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Robert Graves' version of the times of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Claudius told through the dying Claudius as he sets down the history of his family.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story"--
"Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story. "Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark recesses of her family's history—and the history of Ireland. Missing Persons is a stunningly eloquent...
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