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Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Author
Series
The infernal devices volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
4) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com
5) Emma
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Occasionally thoughtless, always headstrong, and constantly meddling in the affairs of her friends, Emma is a character for the ages. Hers is a story that has seamlessly translated to contemporary life. Sparkling with rare literary energy, Emma is a comedy of manners, depicting the self-contained world of 19th-century English life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Hyperion paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Edition
1st Gulliver books pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Series
The last hours volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.
10) Clockwork prince
Author
Series
The infernal devices volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
502 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
12) Code name Verity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.