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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions...
3) Oliver Twist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
320L
Language
English
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"First published in 1838, ‘Oliver Twist' is one of the most admired novels by Charles Dickens, an English writer, and social critic. It is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, ""Please, sir, I want some more."" After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves,...
4) Maisie Dobbs
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: "M. Dobbs, trade and personal investigations." She soon becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence of something amiss. Mysteries fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element...
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Steampunk chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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London, 1897. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation -- an automaton more human than machine.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an example of Conrad's later political writing, which moved away from his earlier, seafaring tales. The spy Mr. Verloc moves through London where he encounters anarchism, terrorism and revolutionary groups. Conrad also deals with the notion of exploitation.
The novel's treatment of terrorism caused it to be one of the three most cited works of literature in the American media post Spetember 11, 2001.
8) Small island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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"Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be recieved as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmers daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 450L
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English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Newly orphaned archaeologist's daughter Anne Beddingfeld is off to see the world. After witnessing a gruesome and fatal 'accident', following a suspected murderer, and finding a mysterious clue on a scrap of paper, Anne sets sail for South Africa. Sinister happenings ensue, but her newly acquired paternalistic protector, Sir Eustace, will surely see that she comes to no permanent harm. But which of the two masterful men sharing the voyage, Colonel...
12) Pardonable lies
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1930 London a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as...
13) Gallows thief
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding historical drama about an ex-soldier in 1820s London who must help rescue an innocent man from Death Row, by bestselling author Bernard Cornwell It is the end of the Napoleonic Wars and England has just fought its last victorious battle against the French. As Rider Sandman and the other heroes of Waterloo begin to make their way back to England, they find a country where corruption, poverty, and social unrest run rampant, and where...
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Nightside series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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John Taylor’s the name. I’m a PI working a small slice of mystical real estate in the hidden centre of London. It’s a place where the sun refuses to rise, where monsters and men walk side by side. And if you want something found in the Nightside, I’m your man.
The editor of the Unnatural Inquirer—the Nightside’s most notorious rag—has...
The editor of the Unnatural Inquirer—the Nightside’s most notorious rag—has...
15) Full dark house
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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When a bomb claims the life of John May's detective partner of more than half a century, May becomes convinced that the key to the killer's identity lies in his first case together with his partner.
16) Web of lies
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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Femi is in trouble. He's gotten involved with a gang of older boys and is telling so many lies to his family, he can hardly keep his head straight. His sister, Sade, knows something is going on, but she doesn't want to worry their father while he's waiting to hear if the family will be granted asylum in Britain. But with Femi growing more and more involved with the criminal gang, how long will any of them be safe? In this sequel to Carnegie Medal...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service.
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme....
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
860L
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English
Description
Back in print and now available in trade paperback, Dorothy L. Sayers' classic tale of murder and scandal at a chic London advertising agency, featuring the dashing and brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey. When executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the iron staircase at Pym's Publicity, a posh London ad agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to investigate. Before his tragic demise, the victim had tried to warn Mr. Pym, the firm's owner, about some...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
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English
Description
Mr. Parker Pyne states quite clearly that he is not a detective but 'a heart specialist'. Deception, accomplices and manipulation are all part of his method of operation and he works to cure unhappiness more frequently than to investigate crime.
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