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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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
Publisher
HarperCollin's Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
390 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frederieke Teitler and her sister, Astra, live in a home, in a city, in a world divided. Their father left when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls...
Author
Language
English
Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery...
5) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
An unabridged edition of nineteenth-century American author Louisa May Alcott's novel about four New England sisters who come of age during the Civil War, which also includes discussion questions and activity ideas for reading groups.
6) Olivia Twist
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned at birth and living as a boy, Olivia Brownlow finds herself living as a debutante in high society after a caper goes wrong and encounters Jack MacCarron, a boy once known as the Artful Dodger.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her ailing father is conscripted to fight invaders from the north, Mulan dresses as a man to take his place in the army, but an old enemy and an attraction for her troop's commander complicate her mission.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.
10) Girl on a Plane
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970"--
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/VIking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unkown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its covert Y-service outposts on the edge of the war-torn Empire....
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 4
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking--the magical discipline of bespelling plastic. Polymaking is the newest form of magic, and in a field where there is so much left to learn, every Polymaker dreams of making the next big discovery. Even though she is only an apprentice, Alvie is an inventor at heart, and she is determined to make as many discoveries--in as short a time frame--as she can. Luckily for her,...
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bound to a magic she never wanted, a young apprentice falls deeper into its mysteries when she must use everything she's learned from her master in order to save him, and his heart.
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now well into her apprenticeship with magician Emery Thane, Ceony Twill is continuing to discover the joy of paper magic, and secretly hoping that the romance she foresaw blossoming between her and Emery becomes real. But another magician with a penchant for deadly scheming believes that Ceony is harboring a secret, and he vows to uncover it, no matter the cost.
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 3
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she's kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She's discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own--an ability long thought impossible. While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician's exam, life quickly becomes complicated. To avoid favoritism, Emery sends her to another paper magician for testing, a Folder who despises...
Author
Series
Kingdom of Three volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As three warring fractures try to gain control of the kingdom, orphaned Zephyr, a strategist serving Xin Ren, infiltrates an enemy camp where she encounters the enigmatic Crow, an opposing strategist who might just be her match.
Author
Series
Summer of My German Soldier volume 1
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
230 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
18) The Lie Tree
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
19) The Enigma Game
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
Author
Series
Gods and warriors volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
313 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the turbulent world of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, Hylas, a lowly twelve-year-old goatherd, thief, and outsider, journeys from the Greek mountains to Crete and Egypt, making allies with animals, battling tyranny, and withstanding the elemental powers of the gods of land and sea.