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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having left her parents' Missouri farm for good and trained to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, teenage Rose moves out to San Francisco and joins the thousands of "bachelor girls" supporting themselves.
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles).
Author
Series
Book Scavenger volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James uncover a trail of encrypted messages in books by Mark Twain hidden through Book Scavenger. What is most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson.