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1) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch of railway track and the station nearby, and befriend the railway porter, who teaches them about running the station, and an old gentleman who takes...
4) Moonraker
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 3
Language
English
Description
As the super patriot and war veteran who's bankrolling Britain's top-secret Moonraker rocket program, Sir Hugo Drax should be above reproach. But there's more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards in an exclusive gentleman's club, he sends Bond in to investigate. But exposing the deception only enrages Drax-and now 007 must outwit an angry man with the power to loose a nuclear warhead on London. The...
5) Tunnels
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers an astounding gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals who fight to keep the powers of evil, the Dark, from taking over the world. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Light and the Dark. But the Dark has already sent out the Rider -- evil cloaked in black, mounted on a...
Author
Series
Shakespeare mysteries volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Colophon Letterford and her cousin Julian continue their quest to uncover their family's treasure as new clues lead them to Oxford, England, seeking to unravel a connection to Christopher Marlowe.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. He even rose from the dead after Doyle tried to dispatch him in his twenty-fourth adventure, and readers protested. Here, in one volume, are all four full-length novels and fifty-six short stories about the colourful...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Rebellious Catherine is the daughter of a well-off family in fourteenth-century England. Girls like her are expected to obey their parents and sit quietly with their sewing, not go on adventures. Her mother wants to teach her how to be a lady and her father wants to merry her off, but Catherine herself has other ideas" -- Back cover
11) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain's top secret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle's killers . . ." --
12) Ivanhoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
The epitome of the chivalric novel, Ivanhoe sweeps readers into Medieval England and the lives of a memorable cast of characters. Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-the-Lion-Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman is defended by Ivanhoe against a charge of witchcraft -- but it is Lady Rowena who is Ivanhoe's true love. The wicked Prince John plots to usurp England's...
13) Hard times
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop. Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution-and...
14) Stardust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
The fantasy fairy tale about a young man, an evil witch, and the sons of a lord, all seeking the star, a young woman living in the land of Faerie. Annotation. In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall, a secluded hamlet so named for an imposing stone barrier that surrounds a fertile grassland. Armed sentries guard the sole gap in the bulwark to keep the inquisitive from...
15) Everland
Author
Series
Everland volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure. Their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As they search for Arun's mother, Is Twite and her cousin Arun are grateful for their ability to communicate telepathically when they find themselves in a series of dangerous predicaments involving the evil Dominic de la Twite and his Silent Sect.
17) Fearless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In late seventeenth-century England, eleven-year-old Digory, forced to leave his hometown after his father is lost at sea, becomes an apprentice to the architect Henry Winstanley, who built a lighthouse on the treacherous Eddystone Reef--the very rocks that sank Digory's grandfather's ship years before.
18) The castle crime
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
While visiting London, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve a mystery and meet the Queen.
Author
Series
Found things volume 1
Language
English
Description
Xanthe and her mother Flora leave London behind for a fresh start, taking over an antique shop in the historic town of Marlborough. Xanthe has always had an affinity with some of the antiques she finds. When she touches them, she can sense something of the past they come from and the stories they hold. So when she has an intense connection to a beautiful silver chatelaine she has to know more. It's while she's examining the chatelaine that she's transported...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world-including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775.
London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told...
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