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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Author
Series
Austin Family Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The life of the Austin family is changed by the arrival of self-centered young Maggy Hamilton, orphaned by the sudden death of her pilot father.
3) Ripper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.
4) Willow
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
6) Fireborne
Author
Series
Aurelian cycle volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the proteg�e of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
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
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"--
13) Library of souls
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.)
14) The cruel prince
Author
Series
The Folk of the Air volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues...
Author
Series
Strange the dreamer volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
War orphan and junior librarian Lazlo Strange gets an unexpected opportunity to follow his dream of seeking the mythic lost city of Weep with the Godslayer and his band of legendary warriors.
Author
Series
Strange the Dreamer volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected"--
18) Shadow and bone
Author
Series
Shadow and Bone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegee of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
Author
Series
Sorcery of Thorns volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery -- magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage...
20) The wicked king
Author
Series
[The Folk of the Air volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As administrative officer to High King Cardan, Jude must fight to keep control of the Faerie throne while her younger brother, Oak, enjoys the childhood she never knew.