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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius--his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state,...
2) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
3) Shadow wave
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 12
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels. Guarding the governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfect mission-- and then retired agent Kyle Blueman comes up with an unofficial and highly dangerous plan of his own. James must choose between loyalty to CHERUB, and loyalty to his friend.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Accepting a dashing viscount's marriage proposal as part of a plan to escape her overbearing mother, Emily finds herself widowed early after her marriage and subsequently learns that her husband was not who he professed to be, a discovery that prompts an investigation in the quiet corridors of the British Museum.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
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Description
"Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in [this] Austen's beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"1793. Horatio Hornblower is only seventeen when he joins His Majesty's Royal Navy as a Midshipman. He's dangerously unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, but he's saved by his quick, mathematical mind and keen eye ... This is where it all begins--where young Hornblower gets his sea legs and shows the makings of the legend he will later become."--Jacket.
9) The Recruit
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 which consists of teenage spies. He successfully completes his training and goes on his first mission.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternate Victorian England where mediums control the dead, sixteen-year-old autistic transgender boy Silas must expose a power-hungry secret society while confined to a cruel finishing school designed to turn him into the perfect wife.
11) The killing
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
When James is given the mission of digging up leads on Leon, a small-time crook with big money, James unravels a larger plot than expected with the only person who might know the truth being a deceased eighteen-year-old boy.
12) Empire of ivory
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
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Description
Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...
Author
Series
Wolf Hall trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
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Description
Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. Employing a vast array of historical characters, and a story overflowing with incident, the author turns Tudor England into a compelling piece of fiction. Mantel re-creates an era when the personal and political...
16) Marvel 1602
Author
Publisher
Marvel Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
1602, England. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings and at the center of the rising chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl newly arrived from the New World, guarded by a towering Indian warrior. Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole...
17) The fall
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 7
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive. Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning ...CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them.
18) Chain of thorns
Author
Series
Last hours (Shadowhunters) volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
Love, duty, and danger collide in Edwardian London, as the Shadowhunters face the greatest threat they have ever known.
19) Throne of jade
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
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Description
Captain Will Laurence and his noble dragon Temeraire battle against Bonaparte's invading forces. When China discovers that their rare gift, meant for Napoleon, is now in the hands of the British forces, they demand the return of the dragon.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the fifth volume of the Temeraire series, as Will Laurence and Temeraire struggle to reunite and face the Napoleonic army on London's doorstep.
“A story about friendship that transcends not only time and class, but species.”—NPR
For Britain, conditions are grim: Napoleon’s resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully...
“A story about friendship that transcends not only time and class, but species.”—NPR
For Britain, conditions are grim: Napoleon’s resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully...
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