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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As a young woman, Anne Shirley is embracing adulthood by becoming a productive member of society making the transition from imaginative student to respected schoolteacher. In this classic coming of age story, Anne navigates various challenges that tempt old habits and test her new maturity.
A now 16-year-old Anne continues to live with Marilla in the quaint farming town of Avonlea. While poised to start a new teaching position, Anne struggles to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the third installment of the Anne of Green Gables series, Anne enrolls in college and must face new challenges inside and outside the classroom. The young student attempts to balance a vibrant social life with an intense course load that will push her to her limits.
Anne has left the comforts of Green Gables to embark on her college career. While attending Redmond College in Nova Scotia, she meets a new friend, Philippa Gordon and a potential...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
552 p.
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death related the story of Liesel - a young girl whose book-stealing and storytelling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Series
The infernal devices volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
8) Born wicked
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
12) The night diary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
13) Our violent ends
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
494 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on a mission. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers." Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are: not a war, but a revolution.
16) Buffalo flats
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The coming of age story of Rebecca Leavitt as she searches for her identity in the Northwest Territories of Canada"--
17) 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.