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Series
Montmaray journals volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.
2) The way back
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Description
A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the bidding of a voice on a phone, sixteen-year-old Kari and her friends from Generation Interpol, a spy training facility, race around Europe to fulfill a list of demands, as Kari's brother's life hangs in the balance.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An illustrated introduction that describes the history of the Black Death pandemic in the 1300s, and discusses the causes, spread, symptoms observed, treatment techniques, and the outcome of the devastation.
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
9) Changeling
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
14) All is fair
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1918, and war is raging across Europe. When Lady Mina Tretheway receives a telegram at boarding school, she doesn't want to read it--telegrams never bring good news. The message is written in a cryptic code, and Mina is soon pulled out of school and into a secret wartime mission with a dashing American spy" --
15) Stormbringers
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Luca and Isolde continue their journey searching for evil in medieval Christenndom.
16) The midnight zoo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
17) The racers: how an outcast driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car challenged Hitler's best
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the years before World War II, Adolf Hitler wanted to prove the greatness of the Third Reich in everything from track and field to motorsports. The Nazis poured money into the development of new race cars, and Mercedes-Benz came out with a stable of supercharged automobiles called Silver Arrows. Their drivers dominated the sensational world of European Grand Prix racing and saluted Hitler on their many returns home with victory. As the Third Reich...
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates. Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A biography for teens on Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Her long reign was filled with drama, death, intrigue, and passion, and took place during a time of great transformation, an era that bears the imprint of her personality and values as well as that of her name--the Victorian period."--Provided by publisher.
20) Map of fates
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"Heiress to the powerful secret society known as the Circle, Avery West crosses continents following a trail of clues she hopes will lead to Alexander the Great's Tomb--and the earth shattering secret it holds--before it's too late"--
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