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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
HL 410L
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English
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In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.
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English
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Assuming the responsibilities of governing France after the death of his prime minister, Louis XIV embarks on a love affair with his sister-in-law, Henriette, triggering a scandal that is complicated by a finance minister's growing power and a mysterious boy with an iron mask.
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Following Ten Years Later, the fifth volume of this adventure saga chronicles a tale of intrigue and romantic rivalry in the court of Louis XIV.
With The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas introduced the world to the immortal hero D'Artagnan and the inseparable trio of king's musketeers: Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. Their many escapades-full of swordfights, derring-do, and chivalry-came to define the swashbuckler genre of adventure fiction.
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4) One for all
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Acadaemie des Mariaees in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
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When Jessica regains consciousness in a Ferench hospital on the day of the Paris attacks, all she can think of is fleeing the site of the horror she survived. But Patrick, the steadfast friend who hasn't left her side, urges her to reconsider her decision. Worn down by his insistence, she reluctantly agrees to follow through with the trip they'd planned before the tragedy. During a stop at a country flea market, Jessica finds a faded document concealed...
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Lexile measure
1060L
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English
Description
Overview: Originally published in 1845 as a sequel to The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the three musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to...
7) Betrayed
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English
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Acting as a spy for King James I of Scotland, Fiona Hay is drawn into a political intrigue that takes her away from Angus Gordon, the man she loves, and forces her into the arms of passionate Highlander Colin MacDonald of Nairn
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English
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A biography by an acclaimed historian and biographer of the most famous of the French monarchs, Louis XIV, presents a fresh perspective on his long and complicated reign.Louis XIV's story had legendary beginnings, beguiling women, court intrigue, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask, lavish court entertainments, the scandal of a mistress who was immersed in the dark arts, and a central character who is handsome and romantic, but with a frighteningly...
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Sun Court duet volume 2
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English
Description
Pulled by chance from her traveling actor family into service under the influential mistress of Louis XIV, Claudette uses her considerable talents to spy on personal and political rivals, only to have her loyalty questioned in the wake of a mercurial Athénaïs's fascination with dark magic.
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Series
Last musketeer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Before they were legends, they were friends. All for one and one for all! On the first day of a family trip to Paris, Greg Rich's parents disappear. They're are not just missing from the city - they're missing from the century. So Greg does what any other fourteen-year-old would do: he travels through time to rescue them. Greg soon finds out that his family history is tied to the legendary Three Musketeers. But when he meets them, they're his age,...
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Sun Court duet volume 1
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English
Description
Set against the magnificent decadence of the 17th century court of the Sun King, Mistress of the Sun begins when an eccentric young Louise falls in love with a wild white stallion and uses ancient magic to tame him. This one desperate action of her youth shadows her throughout her life, changing it in ways she could never imagine. Unmarriageable, and too poor to join a convent, she enters the court of the Sun King as a maid-of-honor, where the King...
12) The jewel thief
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Series
Jewel thief (Mobley) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Juliette Pitau, the daughter of a master gem-cutter, hopes to avoid execution by telling the court clerk--who is also her paramour--the story of how King Louis XIV's magnificent blue diamond was stolen. Includes author's note.
13) Double cross
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Series
Last musketeer volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"When Greg and the Musketeers return to Paris and find the city under siege, they leap into action to prevent King Louis from being overthrown and history from being changed forever"--
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Hunt and Hooke novel volume 2
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English
Description
"London, 1679 ; A year has passed since the sensational attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt, estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke,; is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made a grim...
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The Three Musketeers were the most celebrated heroes in 17th-century France. They are suddenly astonished to find themselves on opposing sides in a struggle for the throne of a burgeoning empire. And the pwn in this battle is none other than the identical twin brother of King Louis XIV-the tormented soul doomed to become "the man in the iron mask."
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