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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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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.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An anthology of historical short stories features a diverse array of girls standing up for themselves and their beliefs, forging their own paths while resisting society's expectations.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
'It was the best of times, it was the the worst of times,' we are told at the outset, but it is mostly brutality on display in this richly-woven and moving tale, set against the bloody and fearsome events of the French Revolution. Two men, one a French aristocrat, one a dissipated English barrister, both love the same woman. Their rivalry takes them through cobblestone alleys thick with filth and violence, into the company of the revolution's most...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this story loosely based on the Cinderella fairy tale, Gisela is determined to get an invitation to the ball being thrown for the duke's son, Valten, but meeting him may not lead to her happily-ever-after.
5) Ivanhoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.9 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of the Saxon knight Ivanhoe in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return from the Third Crusade.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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.
7) And I darken
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this first book in a trilogy a girl child is born to Vlad Dracula, in Transylvania, in 1435--at first rejected by her father and always ignored by her mother, she will grow up to be Lada Dragwlya, a vicious and brutal princess, destined to rule and destroy her enemies.
No one expects a Princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia...
Author
Series
Kingdom of the wicked (Maniscalco) volume 1
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A James Patterson Presents Novel From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes a new blockbuster series... Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself... And an intoxicating romance. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier captured by the Germans, witnesses firebombing and destruction in Dresden. Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
1890, Atlanta. Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night she moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, Dear Miss Sweetie. When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race...
11) Butterfly yellow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Summerside Press, Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julia Cavanaugh has never left New York. But in 1889, the young woman rides the orphan train west to deliver the girls in her care to new families. Upon arriving in the remote town of Lonesome Prairie, she learns to her horror that she is also supposed to be delivered-into the hands of an uncouth miner who carries a bill of purchase for his new "bride". Julia turns to a respected circuit preacher to protect her from the marriage, but with no return...
14) Merlin's blade
Author
Series
Merlin spiral volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Druids, using a meteorite that has crashed near a small village, try to destroy King Uthur's kingdom and the new Christian faith, and the only person who seems to be immune is a young, shy and half-blind son of a swordsmith named Merlin but when young Arthur, who will one day become the legendary king, is placed in danger, Merlin must face his fears and blindness to take control of the role God ordained for him, only armed with a sword he helped to...
15) Forge
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course of the winter with the army at Valley Forge, worries that someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free, and tries to figure out the meaning of his friendship with Isabel.
17) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Native Americans who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices have led to one last hedonistic hurrah as Monty, his best friend and crush Percy, and Monty's sister Felicity begin a Grand Tour of Europe. When a reckless decision turns their trip abroad into a harrowing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man...
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