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1) The Lie Tree
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
2) Contagion
Author
Series
Dark Matter volume 1
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
409 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deadly, mysterious epidemic is sweeping the country, and young kidnap victim Callie is one of the few who survived infection, only to be sacrificed by her captors at a secret lab working with antimatter; her older brother Kai is desperate to find out what happened to her--his best hope lies with Shay, the girl who last saw Callie alive, and together they will seek answers, even if it means evading soldiers and crossing the quarantine zone.
3) Deception
Author
Series
Dark Matter volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
358 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the "Aberdeen flu," Shay has surrendered herself to the authorities and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her...
5) Timekeeper
Author
Series
Timekeeper volume 1
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
414 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Victorian-era world controlled by clock towers, where damaged clocks can break time itself and broken clocks can stop it completely, a prodigy mechanic desperately works to save his father from a Stopped town; a series of bombings threaten all England; a boy searches desperately for a way to turn back time and relive his past; and a romance that threatens time itself ensues.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.
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.
8) Into the Dim
Author
Series
Into the Dim volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hope Walton travels back in time to help rescue her mother, a member of the secret society of time travelers, who is trapped in twelfth-century England in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1792, after leaving her violently mad mother behind in revolutionary France, seventeen-year-old Thea Hope travels to England, where she risks losing her own sanity when she creates the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Orchard Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
404 p.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alter-ego, but when a young friend is caught in the middle of a murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon Scarper for help.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Orchard Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
231 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Orchard Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
362 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Seven very proper Victorian young ladies conspire to hide a murder from the authorities at their boarding school"--
14) Hood
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Isabelle of Kirklees lives a quiet life inside the sheltered walls of the convent with her mother, Marien. After she is arrested by royal soldiers for defending innocent villagers, Isabelle becomes the target of the Wolf, King John's ruthless right hand. Desperate to keep her daughter safe, Marien helps Isabelle escape and sends her on a mission to find the one person who can help: Isabelle's father, Robin Hood. She is thrust into a world of thieves...
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Orchard Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Queen Victoria lies dying and with her family in danger, a group of friends races to track down the anarchists responsible for George's death, even as Montmorency seeks to teach a new generation to forgive.
16) Court of swans
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In medieval England, after her seven brothers are falsely accused of murder and treason, eighteen-year-old Delia flees their cruel stepmother and becomes a seamstress at Westminster Palace, hoping to gain their release, with Sir Geoffrey's assistance.
17) Chain of Iron
Author
Series
The Last Hours volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Carstairs' romantic dreams must be put on hold when a serial killer begins targeting the Shadowhunters of London, sending the Merry Thieves on the trail of a knife-wielding killer.
18) Code name Verity
Author
Series
Code Name Verity volume 1
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.
19) Chain of thorns
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 39
Physical Desc
778 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Love, duty, and danger collide in Edwardian London, as the Shadowhunters face the greatest threat they have ever known.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.