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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
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Series
Leland Sisters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Penelope Leland, hoping to prove herself as good a witch as her twin sister, travels to Ireland to continue her studies, but she is distracted by the dashing Niall Keating who has been ordered by his sorceress mother to seduce Pen into an evil plot.
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg Pickel's older brother, Orion, has disappeared. One night, she steals out to look for him, and makes two surprising discoveries: She stumbles upon a séance that she suspects involves Orion, and she meets the author Charles Dickens, also unable to sleep, and roaming the London streets. He is a customer of Meg's father, who owns a print shop, and a family friend. Mr. Dickens fears that the children of London aren't safe, and is trying to solve...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, and experiences great changes in her circumstances and in herself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beautiful, wealthy, and sheltered Lady Charlotte Edmonds, sixteen, and hardworking, clever kitchen maid Janie Seward are both ready for change, and as their paths overlap in The Manor, rules are broken and secrets revealed that will alter the course of their lives forever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
Author
Series
Executioner's daughter volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with her father in the Tower of London during the reign of Henry VIII, Moss is disgusted and revolted by both her father's job (executioner) and hers (collecting the freshly severed heads) and wants desperately to escape and find out more about her origins.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
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