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Court of Fives trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
"Now a Fives Challenger, Jes travels the countryside to compete against adversaries of similar skill levels, using the opportunity to search for her missing twin sister, Bettany, only to be thrown into the center of the war that Lord Kalliarkos--the boy she still loves--is fighting against their country's enemies"--
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Series
We set the dark on fire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this nail-biting sequel to Tehlor Kay Mejia's critically acclaimed fantasy novel We Set the Dark on Fire, Perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Anna-Marie McLemore.Being a part of the resistance group La Voz is an act of devotion and desperation. On the other side of Medio's border wall, the oppressed class fights for freedom and liberty, sacrificing what little they have to become defenders of the cause. Carmen Santos is one of La Voz's...
3) Love story
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Series
Love story volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy upper-class family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wiscracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Their attraction to each other is immediate and powerful, and together they share a love that defies everything. This is their story--a story of...
4) Evermore
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Series
Everless volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Jules Ember was raised hearing legends of the ancient magic of the wicked Alchemist and the good Sorceress. But she has just learned the truth: She is the Alchemist, and Caro--a woman who single-handedly murdered the Queen and Jules's first love, Roan, in cold blood--is the Sorceress. The whole kingdom believes that Jules is responsible for the murders, and a hefty bounty has been placed on her head. And Caro is intent on destroying Jules, who stole...
Author
Series
Court of Fives trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
When a scheming lord tears Jes's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband's household or raise his children. Both paths promise a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school's top student, but her pedigree is a lie. She must keep the truth hidden or be sent back...
9) King's cage
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Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother's web in an attempt to maintain control over his country--and his prisoner" --
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Series
Good luck girls volume 2
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English
Formats
Description
In an alternate Old West, the Good Luck Girls reunite to undertake a wildly ambitious plan to free all dustbloods who live as prisoners to Arketta's landmasters and debt slavery.
11) Red queen
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...
12) The blade itself
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Series
First law volume 1
Language
English
Description
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest...
13) Everless
Author
Series
Everless volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency-extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries.
14) Carve the mark
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Series
Carve the mark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
Author
Series
Clandestine affairs volume 2
Language
English
Description
London's finest bonesetter, Hanna Zaydan, the daughter of foreign merchants, is slowly seduced by a new patient--a mysterious former soldier--who threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard for.
16) North and South
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Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, the daughter of a local priest in Hampshire, whose father decides to leave his country church after a serious crisis of faith. All the events that follow happen in the fictional industrial English town named Milton to which the Hale family has moved. Thus, part of the narrative focuses on the juxtaposition between industrial areas and the countryside. Margaret is very critical of...
17) The Jewel
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
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Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Koral and her brother, Emrik, risk their lives to capture the monstrous maristags that live in the black seas around their island. They have to, or else their family will starve. In an oceanic world swarming with vicious beasts, the ruling elite have indentured her family to provide the maristags for the Glory Race, a deadly chariot tournament reserved for the upper class. The winner receives gold and glory. The losers - if they're...
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Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
"When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper."--
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for ... and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl ... and she's made of fire. Lei is a member of the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She's forced to go with...
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Series
Alamaxa duology volume 01
Language
English
Description
In a novel set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, two young women--Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing--find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic.
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