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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
980L
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English
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In fifteenth-century England, when his father's murderer is revealed to be his guardian, seventeen-year-old Richard Shelton joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow in avenging the death, rescuing the woman he loves, and participating in the struggle between the Yorks and Lancasters in the War of the Roses.
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English
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From the mysterious Druids and noble King Alfred to the notorious Henry VIII and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Charles Dickens traced his country's history for the benefit of young Victorians. Written with the beloved storyteller's customary panache, this series of historical vignettes reads like a fast-paced novel, rich in anecdotes and colorful stories. Dickens' unsparing, witty, and opinionated perspectives on the great pageant of English history...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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Headstrong sixteen-year-old Lady Luneta and her distant cousin, Sir Ywain, travel to Camelot and beyond, finding more adventure than they hoped for until, with the help of a fool, Luneta discovers what she really wants from life.
5) VIII
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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Hal, a young man of extraordinary talents, skill on the battlefield, sharp intelligence, and virtue, believes he is destined for greatness. But, haunted by his family's violent past, he embarks on a journey that leads to absolute power and brings him face to face with his demons as he grows to become Henry VIII.
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The knights' tales volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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Relates the adventures of Sir Gawain, the only undefeated knight in King Arthur's court, who eventually learns the value of friendship, courtliness, and courtesy after a challenge from the Green Knight.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
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The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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Sir Dinadan and his friend Sir Palomides, Sir Gaheris, Sir Terence, and other knights of the Round Table and their associates try to stop Mordred and his White Horsemen from ending King Arthur's rule of Great Britain.
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English
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A glowing first novel that brings us "historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written"
It is England, in the fourteenth century -- a time of plague, political unrest and the earliest stirrings of the Reformation. The printing press had yet to be invented, and books were rare and costly, painstakingly lettered by hand and illuminated with exquisite paintings. Finn is a master illuminator who works not only for the Church...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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Terence worries about the lengthy absence of his faery friends as he travels to Greece to aid the Emperor Alexander and attempts to thwart a nefarious plot by Mordred to assume the throne held by King Arthur.
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Crispin Guest medieval mysteries volume 15
Crispin Guest medieval noir volume 15
Crispin Guest Mystery
Crispin Guest medieval noir volume 15
Crispin Guest Mystery
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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1399, London. The prioress at St. Frideswide wants to hire Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, to investigate murders at the priory. Two of Prioress Drueta's nuns have been killed in a way that signifies two of the Seven Deadly Sins, and she's at her wits end. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing when the exiled Henry Bolingbroke returns to England's shores.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Medieval England was a time of great change and uncertainty. After the Romans left, years of warfare ensued while different tribes fought to rule the nation. This constant fighting helped create the feudal system which resulted in further conflict between the rich and the poor. The end of the Middle Ages found England united under one ruler, a nation that had grown strong with England ready to become a dominant power in the world.
13) The last hours
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English
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When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable....
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Very very short history of England volume 02
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English
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A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides.1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings, which altered the entire course of English history.
The French-speaking Normans were the pre-eminent warriors of the 11th century and based their entire society...
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English
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Ed West's My Kingdom for a Horse illuminates the bloody war fought for thirty long years between the descendants of King Edward III in a battle for the throne. Named after the emblems used by the two leading families, the Houses of York and Lancaster, the title of the conflict gives it a romantic feel that probably wasn't as apparent to those on the battlefield having swords shoved into their eyes. And, for all the lovely heraldry and glamorous costumes...
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"Who would cut the throat of a young nun and throw her remains in the river? And what was she doing outside the confines of the priory in the first place? Secretly acting as a spy for Henry Bolingbroke, Chandler is torn by conflicting loyalties and agonising self-doubt. As the king's cousin marches towards Wales and England teeters on the brink of civil war, Chandler's investigations will draw him into affairs of state - and endanger not only himself...
18) Hood
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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In England in 1346 Adrian has three problems: he is small for his twelve years, he is an albino, so people are suspicious of him, and his father wants him to be a scribe, while he wants to be an archer--but when he runs away to join his friend in the fight against the invading Scots, he learns that war can be a lot more complicated then he imagined.
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Hereward volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"1062, a time many fear is the End of Days. With the English King Edward heirless and ailing, across the grey seas in Normandy the brutal William the Bastard waits for the moment when he can drown England in a tide of blood. The ravens of war are gathering. But as the king's closest advisors scheme and squabble amongst themselves, hopes of resisting the naked ambition of the Norman duke come to rest with just one man: Hereward. To some a ruthless...
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