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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When Perry ends up in Venice on a European tour with his band Inchworm, he can't resist a visit to Harry's Bar, where Gobi told him she'd meet him someday. The last time he saw Gobi, five people were assassinated one crazy night in New York City. Well... Gobi shows up, and once again Perry is roped into a wild, nonstop thrill ride with a body count. Double crossings, kidnappings, CIA agents, arms dealers, boat chases in Venetian canals, and a shootout...
2) Gatty's tale
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Orion Children's Books
Language
English
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Gatty, who has never been further than her own village, is picked to join a band of pilgrims. Their journey to Jerusalem is fraught with danger, but it opens Gatty's eyes to new wonders.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor-even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans of Mackenzi Lee's extraordinary and Stonewall Honor-winning novel.
A year after an accidentally whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague...
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Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
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A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age written by This Monstrous Thing author Mackenzi Lee-Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s.
Henry "Monty" Montague doesn't care that his roguish passions are far from suitable for the gentleman he was born to be. But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his quests...
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Eldest curses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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A #1 New York Times bestseller!
"A rip-roaring adventure merged with satisfying romance." —Entertainment Weekly
"[A] swashbuckling launch to the Eldest Curses series." —Publishers Weekly
From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series full of "swoon-worthy romance [and] abundant...
"A rip-roaring adventure merged with satisfying romance." —Entertainment Weekly
"[A] swashbuckling launch to the Eldest Curses series." —Publishers Weekly
From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series full of "swoon-worthy romance [and] abundant...
6) The extra
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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One ordinary afternoon, fifteen-year-old Lilo and her family are suddenly picked up by Hitler's police and imprisoned as part of the "Gypsy plague." Just when it seems certain that they will be headed to a labor camp, Lilo is chosen by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to work as a film extra. Life on the film set is a bizarre alternate reality. The surroundings are glamorous, but Lilo and the other extras are barely fed, closely guarded, and kept in a locked...
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Series
Cecelia and Kate novels volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1828, English cousins Cecelia and Kate and their husbands search for a missing German railway engineer and with the help of their wizardry skills, uncover a plot that could endanger the unity of England.
8) Stateless
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English
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When Stella North is chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people, she knows all too well how high the stakes are. As the only participating female pilot, it'll be a constant challenge to prove she's a worthy competitor. But promoting peace in Europe feels empty to Stella when civil war is raging in Spain and the Nazis are gaining power -- and when, right from the start, someone resorts to cutthroat sabotage to get ahead...
9) All Is Fair
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Lady Mina Tretheway knows she's destined for greater things than her fancy boarding school, where she's being taught to be a proper English lady. It's 1918, and war is raging across Europe. Unlike her father and brother, who are able to assist in the war effort, Mina is stuck sorting out which fork should be used with which dinner course.
When Mina receives a telegram that's written in code, she finally has her chance to do something big. She returns...
10) The way back
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
11) Greener grass
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Kit Byrne's family is a strong one, but their strength and unity are being severely tested, as life becomes more and more desperate in 19th-century rural Ireland. Lord Fraser is the wealthy landowner, from which the Byrne's and many other families rent their lands. When the potato blight hits, the farmers can no longer make their payments much less produce food for themselves, and the cruel system has no mercy as Lord Fraser wields an iron fist, driving...
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Madman's daughter trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors, and a love triangle.
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Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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This #1 New York Times bestseller and deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion.
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's...
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In the early 1800s, when her father sends her to London for a season, eighteen-year-old Juliana Telford, who prefers researching ladybugs to marriage, meets handsome Spencer Northam, a spy posing as a young gentleman of leisure.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Myra Whitlock has a gift. One many would kill for.
She's an artist whose portraits alter people's real-life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. But since, her magic only works when she understands the cause of the condition she wants to change, she cannot save her own sister from the undiagnosed illness that's slowly killing her. When Myra's offered a small fortune-more than enough...
Author
Series
Madman's daughter trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Juliet struggles to forget Dr. Moreau's horrific legacy only to confront what she fears is one of her father's murderous creations and her own worsening illness.
17) Kiss Me in Paris
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English
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The delightful follow-up to Kiss Me in New York. Serena Fuentes won't waste one moment of her whirlwind trip to Paris. She has it all mapped out, right down to the photos she will take, and the last thing she wants is a change in plans. Yet suddenly she's touring the city with Jean-Luc, a French friend of her sister's boyfriend. He has to take pictures of his own if he ever hopes to pass his photography class, and his project totally slows Serena...
18) My Contrary Mary
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Series
Mary novels (Cynthia Hand) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Long live the queen: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane kick off an all-new historical trilogy with the classy, courtly tale of Mary, Queen of Scots. Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and . . . queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she’s a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is an Eðian (shapeshifter) in a kingdom...
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Armenian genocide trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A gripping story of love set against the horrors of Armenian genocide in Turkey during World War I. Teenagers Kevork and his betrothed Marta are the lucky ones. They have managed so far to survive the Armenian genocide in Turkey, and both are disguised as Muslims. But Marta is still in Turkey, pregnant with another man's child. And Kevork is living as an Arab in Syria.
Kevork yearns to get back into Turkey and search for Marta, but with the war raging...
20) Allies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together to storm German-occupied France.
Welcome to D-Day.
Dee, a young U.S. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. And Dee - along with his brothers-in-arms -is terrified. He feels the weight of World War II on his shoulders. But Dee is not...
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