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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century, five 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.
Author
Series
Young royals volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families. But strange occurences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
6) Hood
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Isabelle learns that she is the daughter of Robin Hood when her mother, Marien, sends her from their priory to get an urgent message to her father, aided by the Merry Men.
7) Wrapped
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Agnes Wilkins is about to make her debut into 1815 London society at a lavish party, where she meets Lord Showalter, a wealthy and eligible man who collects Egyptian antiquities and who is hiding a dangerous secret.
Author
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...
11) Peril on the sea
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.
13) Manor of secrets
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
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a creature dies, its spirit can go looking for somewhere to hide. Some people have space inside them, perfect for hiding. Makepeace, a courageous girl with a mysterious past, defends herself nightly from the ghosts which try to possess her. Then a dreadful event causes her to drop her guard for a moment. And now there's a ghost inside her. The spirit is wild, brutish and strong, but it may be her only defence in a time of dark suspicion and fear....
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
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.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1800s, when her father sends her to London for a season, eighteen-year-old Juliana Telford, who prefers researching ladybugs to marriage, meets handsome Spencer Northam, a spy posing as a young gentleman of leisure.
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