Simon Prebble
1) 1984
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterized by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular and political culture, and the adjective “Orwellian”, describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as...
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
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Beyond the western sea volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-old Laurence Kirkle, the son of an English lord, runs away from home to escape his cruel older brother and start a new life in a new world.All three children face...
4) Raven's gate
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Series
Gatekeepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
5) Point blank
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
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Series
Beyond the western sea volume 2
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English
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On a cold January day in 1851, twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell huddles on the deck of the Robert Peel. He is leaving his impoverished home behind in Ireland, while in America, his father is waiting with the promise of a new life. But as Patrick watches the shoreline fade from view, he feels torn with worry. His new friend Laurence Kirkle, who is running away from home, waits for food in the ship's hold. If the captain finds the young stowaways,...
7) Ark angel
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
8) Scorpia
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
9) Skeleton Key
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
10) Evil star
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Series
Gatekeepers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
11) Crocodile tears
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile
12) Nightshade
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
13) Eagle Strike
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, n