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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tagus is a medical slave who wants be a gladiator, Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner and betrothed to an older man, and the two teenagers are in love with each other--but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever.
3) Belle epoque
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison. But soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970"--
7) Forbidden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In early 19th century England, Josie, 16, finds herself in a sinister place with mysterious, hostile people, including her own relatives. Persistence and determination drive her to uncover the town's horrifying secret--a conspiracy to wreck and plunder ships--despite obstacles natural and supernatural"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble. When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister, a member of the famous and feared Night Witches-a brigade of young female pilots....
11) The Vespertine
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1889, when Amelia van den Broek leaves her brother's strict home for the freedom of a social season with cousins in Baltimore, she is surprised by her strong attraction to an unsuitable man, but more so by the dark visions she has each evening which have some believing that she is the cause, not merely the seer, of harm.
Author
Series
Magic most foul saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was as if he called to me, demanding I reach out and touch the brushstrokes of color swirled onto the canvas. It was the most exquisite portrait I'd ever seen- everything about Lord Denbury was unbelievable...utterly breathtaking and eerily lifelike. There was a reason for that. Because despite what everyone said, Denbury never had committed suicide. He was alive. Trapped within his golden frame. I've crossed over into his world within the painting,...
13) Outrun the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from poverty in Chinatown, and she gains admittance to a prestigious finishing school through a mix of cunning and bribery. She soon discovers that getting in was the easiest part, and must carve a niche among the spoiled heiresses. When the earthquake strikes on April 18, Mercy and her classmates are forced to a survivor encampment, but her quick-witted leadership rallies them to help in the tragedy's...
14) Muckers
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the shadow of his dead brother, an angry, distant father, and racial tension, must lead the last-ever Muckers high school football team to the state championship before a mine closing shuts down his entire town"-- Provided by publisher.
15) After the train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Count of Flanders flees in a rage when his newborn child is not the expected male heir -- but a girl. Marguerite growing up under the disapproving eye of her heartless father learns to survive in the violent male world of the Middle Ages. Will she be able to resist the combined pressure of politics, power and a foreign prince?
17) Lucky strikes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Emily would rather spend her days dreaming of adventures and wandering the moors, but when her father falls sick, and her sister Charlotte is sent away to school, reality comes crashing in.
19) Grounded
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.
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