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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself - because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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...
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The Agency volume 1
(Ying S.),Agency volume 01
Candlewick on BrillianceAudio
(Ying S.),Agency) volume 1
(Ying S.),Agency volume 01
Candlewick on BrillianceAudio
(Ying S.),Agency) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners - and an unusual vocation. Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls is a cover for an all-female investigative unit called The Agency, and at seventeen, Mary is about to put her training to the test. Assuming the guise of a lady's companion, she must infiltrate a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1250L
Language
English
Description
The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with black and white archival photographs.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a tale steeped in action, romance, and the gaslit intrigue of Victorian London, Mary Quinn's detective skills are pitted against a cunning and desperate opponent. Mary Quinn has a lot on her mind. James Easton, her longtime love interest, wants to marry her; but despite her feelings, independent-minded Mary hesitates. Meanwhile, the Agency has asked Mary to take on a dangerous case: convicted fraudster Henry Thorold is dying in prison, and Mary
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Queen Victoria has a problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a domestic in the royal household and fending off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales are challenge enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder in an opium den -- and scandal threatens the royal family -- Mary learns that the accused killer may be someone very close...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents containing a secret history of the Vietnam War. Known as The Pentagon Papers, these documents had been comissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Chronicling every action the government had taken in the Vietnam War, they revealed a pattern of deception spanning over twenty years and four presidencies, and forever changed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.
12) See no evil
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Nettie's sheltered and privileged life changes after her beloved tutor mysteriously disappears and Nettie, aided by the son of a household employee, begins to learn the truth about her father, whose wealth began with trafficking in illegal aliens.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
Princess Wisdom, who yearns for a life of adventure beyond the kingdom of Montagne. Tips, a soldier keeping his true life secret from his family. Fortitude, an orphaned maid who longs for Tips. And Magic the cat. These mismatched characters form an uneasy alliance as they try to save the kingdom from certain destruction. Told through diaries, memoirs, encyclopedia entries, letters, biographies, and a stage play.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.
17) Switched
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Laura and Willa, born the same night seventeen years ago on opposite sides of Darien, Connecticut, are both unhappy with their lives and when they discover they look remarkably alike, they decide to try out one another's lives for four months.
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