Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985], c1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama...
3) Bleak house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but...
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1953, c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson.
Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and...
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1985, c1938
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 3
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1986, c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1986, c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
12) Beloved: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
13) Salt & Storm
Author
Series
Salt and storm volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants to take her rightful place as the sea witch of Prince Island. When she foresees her own murder, a harpoon boy named Tane promises to help her change her fate and keep her island safe and prosperous, but salvation will require an unexpected sacrifice"--
15) The Beautiful
Author
Series
Beautiful volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
425 pages : color illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 19th century New Orleans, Celine, a dressmaker from Paris, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery that's connected to a glamorous supernatural cohort"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In this book the author tells the tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, this work portrays Brown's uprising revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter's best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a...
19) Jo's Boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfiled school. Sequel to "Little Men."