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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.
Author
Series
Beautiful creatures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
3) Death cloud
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First Square Fish Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain.
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 3
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Square Fish Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes faces danger in a train station for the dead, a museum of curiosities, and downtown Moscow as he helps his brother, Mycroft, who has been framed for murder.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized first-person account of revered American poet Emily Dickinson's girlhood in mid-nineteenth-century Amherst, Massachusetts.
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 4
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fourth action-filled puzzler for teen Sherlock as he plunges into a fight for his life and battles to discover what has happened to his missing friends.
7) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
360 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and taken to China, teenage Sherlock finds himself plunged into the heart of a deadly mystery. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answers seem to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks like a spider's web. But solving one puzzle only leads to an even more urgent question: What has all this got to do with a plot to blow up an American warship?...
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 6
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teen Sherlock battles a monstrous adversary on a mission to Ireland with his brilliant brother, Mycroft. Young Sherlock is thrown into a tangled web involving a spiritualist whose powers have attracted the attention of governments around the world. At the castle where the medium is demonstrating his "gift," Sherlock finds a household in turmoil. Servants and some of the guests are frightened but who--or what?--has terrified them so much that nobody...