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41) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
42) Nooks & crannies
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London's Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
England is at war. Growing up in a lighthouse, Pet's world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart. This is the story of a girl who is small, afraid and unnoticed. A girl who freezes with fear at the enemy planes ripping through the skies overhead. A girl who is somehow destined to become part of the strange, ancient legend of the Daughters...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1940 England, stuck in a train tunnel while German fighter jets fly overhead, Barney hears an unlikely story of a highly decorated World War I soldier who once had a chance to kill young Adolf Hitler.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Even though the city faces nightly air raids, in 1941 Joseph is sent to London to live with the gruff Mrs F, who teaches the angry boy how to care for the remaining animals in the city zoo, including a mighty silverback gorilla named Adonis.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Yearning for adventure, the young Knights of the Round Table are drawn to Orkney, Scotland, where they face a kraken and other monsters, including Queen Margause and her son, Mordred.
50) The mesmerist
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Jess and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists--until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead. Soon she is plunged into the dark world of Victorian London's supernatural underbelly and learns that the city is under attack by ghouls, monsters, and spirit summoners"--
Author
Series
Ninja librarians volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As an apprentice on a training mission to 1912 England, Dorrie takes a chance that could lead the Strongholders to the Lybrarians' fortress, Petrarch's library.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
54) Will in scarlet
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In the late 1100s, thirteen-year-old Will, the future Lord of Shackley, is exiled to Sherwood Forest, where he meets Robin Hood and the Merry Men and bands with them to try retake Shackley Castle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
56) Isaac Newton
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"This book traces the life of Isaac Newton, from his early childhood and education through his sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and the work on gravity and light for which he is best known. A timeline at the end of the book summarizes key milestones and achievements of Newton's life."--
57) Harry and Meghan
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, disguised as a beautiful woman, finds clues in floral bouquets as she searches for the missing Doctor Watson, a companion of her famous older brother, Sherlock.
59) The last bogler
Author
Series
City of orphans volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ned Roach becomes a bogler's apprentice as Victorian London seeks to banish its bogle infestation once and for all in this conclusion to the trilogy featuring young assistants to Victorian London's best monster catcher, Alfred Bunce.
Author
Series
City of orphans volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.
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