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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollin's Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
390 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frederieke Teitler and her sister, Astra, live in a home, in a city, in a world divided. Their father left when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls...
Author
Series
Bloody Jack volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ilse and her older brother Wolf must hone their magical skills to sabotage Hitler's attempt to build an atom bomb and uncover a spy using dark magic to thwart them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall. But even to the balloon makers Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything--including her only way home--to...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda LAB
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kitty Granger has always known that others consider her peculiar. She hates noise and crowds, tends to fixate on patterns, and often feels acutely aware of her surroundings even as she struggles to interpret the behavior of people around her. As a working-class girl in London's East End, she's spent her whole life learning to hide these traits. Until the day when she notices the mysterious man on the bus and finds herself following...
7) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
92 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
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.
9) 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
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the very white, very Christian world of Atlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
Summer, 1958. After her father's death, Ruth Robb's family moves from New York City to Atlanta. Ruth quickly figures out she can be Jewish or she can be popular, but she can't be both, and decides...
11) Out of the dust
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her ailing father is conscripted to fight invaders from the north, Mulan dresses as a man to take his place in the army, but an old enemy and an attraction for her troop's commander complicate her mission.
13) Girl on a Plane
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970"--
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
362 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old twins--and powerful mediums--Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit responsible for their mother's death crosses into the land of the living, the twins race against time to uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to cheat death.
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 3
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she's kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She's discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own--an ability long thought impossible. While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician's exam, life quickly becomes complicated. To avoid favoritism, Emery sends her to another paper magician for testing, a Folder who despises...
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now well into her apprenticeship with magician Emery Thane, Ceony Twill is continuing to discover the joy of paper magic, and secretly hoping that the romance she foresaw blossoming between her and Emery becomes real. But another magician with a penchant for deadly scheming believes that Ceony is harboring a secret, and he vows to uncover it, no matter the cost.
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 4
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking--the magical discipline of bespelling plastic. Polymaking is the newest form of magic, and in a field where there is so much left to learn, every Polymaker dreams of making the next big discovery. Even though she is only an apprentice, Alvie is an inventor at heart, and she is determined to make as many discoveries--in as short a time frame--as she can. Luckily for her,...
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bound to a magic she never wanted, a young apprentice falls deeper into its mysteries when she must use everything she's learned from her master in order to save him, and his heart.
Author
Series
Kingdom of Three volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As three warring fractures try to gain control of the kingdom, orphaned Zephyr, a strategist serving Xin Ren, infiltrates an enemy camp where she encounters the enigmatic Crow, an opposing strategist who might just be her match.
20) 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...