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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
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
4) Fever, 1793
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
440 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three teenage assistants for three powerful men in Edwardian London meet at a ball and discover the body of a murdered man, prompting them to team up in order to investigate the case without drawing undue attention to themselves.
Author
Series
Beautiful creatures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
417 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Poland in the 1940s, the lives of twins Chaim and Gittel feel like a fairy tale torn apart as they must rely on each other to endure life in a ghetto and the horrors of a concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
Author
Series
The Last Hours volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podg?orska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemy?sl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
11) Echo: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica...and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica
12) Clockwork prince
Author
Series
The infernal devices volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
502 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
13) Evvy's Civil War
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.
14) Dauntless
Author
Series
Valiant hearts volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Grey, longing to set his name in legend, encounters the notorious Ghosts of Farthingale Forest, a band of orphans, and their leader, Lady Merry Ellison, currently considered an enemy of the throne.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1982 and Laura Reid is spending a semester in Leningrad studying Russian, but when she meets Alyosha she discovers the dissident Russia--a world of wild parties, underground books and music, love, and constant danger.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
17) Hearts of stone
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned when her father dies fighting for the Union and her mother expires from exhaustion, and also estranged from their Confederate neighbors, fifteen-year-old Hannah struggles to find a way for her family to survive during the Civil War in Tennessee.
18) Keeping corner
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister-in-arms before her time--and that of the newly crowned queen--runs out.