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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
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
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.
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"--
5) 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
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in Alaska in the 1970s isn't like growing up anywhere else: Don't think life is going to be easy. Know your place. And never talk about yourself. Four vivid voices tell intertwining stories of hardship, tragedy, wild luck, and salvation"--
7) Once
Author
Series
Once volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down, then while fleeing home to safety, he finds a girl covered in ash who has no memory.
11) 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.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
344 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.