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(0)Jane Yolen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to more than two dozen of history's most notorious women shares the stories of such figures as Tituba, Lizzie Borden, and Cleopatra, and allows the readers to draw their own conclusions about each woman's guilt.
2) Briar Rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of the German folktale Briar Rose, also known as Sleeping Beauty, set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
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
Stone Man Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
A demon seeking redemption, Silex has kept vigil over Edinburgh for countless years atop a local church as a gargoyle. With the help of his human assistant Craig, Silex solves the mysteries of the city below. But now a mystery lurks inside the church in the form of a young woman seeking sanctuary. The panicking girl raises Silex's suspicions. Craig has a more welcoming spirit but he lacks his gargoyle mentor's centuries of experience. When they discover...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The blazing conclusion to the Stone Man Mysteries trilogy.
In the climactic final volume of the Stone Man Mysteries series, the demon-turned-gargoyle Silex and his human helper Craig make the ultimate uneasy alliance: a partnership with the Devil himself. The prince of darkness is stuck on Earth, trapped in the body of Silex's previous assistant. When one of the Devil's lieutenants attempts to conquer both the underworld and living world, Silex and...
Author
Series
Stone Man Mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A demon gargoyle takes a scrappy runaway under his wing. The gargoyle, the runaway, and a hard-edged priest turn their attention to a series of killings that may have ties to political unrest, as well as to the supernatural.
Author
Language
English
Description
Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?
At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had
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