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2) Hollow City
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
If the Truth is Revealed, Will She Lose All She's Grown to Love? An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, Sarah can't fathom what has happened. Why would this elderly woman, a stranger, want her company? But Dorothea Blake has reasons she isn't revealing. As Sarah blossoms into a young woman, the secret Mrs. Blake...
Author
Series
Private volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
6) Leading lady
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tales of London is set in the fascinating world of the London theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. Wardrobe mistress Bethia Rayborn incites the wrath of Muriel Pearce Holt, the new leading lady at London's Royal Court Theatre. Muriel plots revenge, but in scheming to steal Bethia's true love, she may lose the truest love she has ever known.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Cecil Lawton to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during World War I, a mission that brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The second Maisie Dobbs mystery
Jacqueline Winspear's marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to...
9) Meant to be
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During an educational trip to London, away from her friends and the boy she thinks she is fated to love, Massachussets high school junior Julia Lichtenstein is paired with her nemesis, Jason, and begins seeing many things differently.
10) The Sacrifice
Author
Series
The enemy volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Follows the dual storylines of Small Sam on his search for Ella and of Shadowman's discoveries about Saint George and the Disease itself"--
11) Neverwhere
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Richard Mayhew's life is forever changed after he rescues a young girl named Door and finds himself living in a city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels, and he must help Door on her mission to save this strange underworld kingdom from destruction.
12) The enemy
Author
Series
Enemy volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First Hyperion Paperback Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
440 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a stopover on an island in the East Indies on his voyage to London, wealthy American merchant Gavin Elliott rescues beautiful widow Alexandra Warren, kidnapped by pirates, from a slave auction.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
399 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the "peculiar" capital of the world.
15) The Dead
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
485 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
With a horrible disease either killing everyone over sixteen or turning them into decomposing, flesh-eating monsters, the kids at Rowhurst School escape their attacking teachers and head for London.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
With approval from the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a best-selling novelist and Sherlock Holmes expert brings the greatest detective in literary history back to life on Baker Street for the first time since 1930.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An ultimate showdown in 1897 London is marked by Mila's pursuit of independence after her heart is broken by Jack Dandy, Griffin King's torture by the Machinist, and Finley's life-risking venture into the Aether.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emily is kidnapped and ordered to transplant the Machinist's consciousness into one of his creations, Finley Jayne and her friends are forced to work with Jack Dandy, who compels Finley to evaluate her feelings for Griffin.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.
20) 1984: a novel
Author
Series
A Signet Classic volume CW 942
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.