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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor's army of near-immortal women warriors.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Five years ago Adeluna helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Agrid, a country ruled by religion. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray's new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice-- and Lu suspects something dangerous is at work. Devereux is a pirate, scavenging the island's magic plants and selling them on the black market. Accused of the diplomat's abduction, Vex becomes a target....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The warrior Sulien ap Gwien and her lord King Urdo have finally united the land of Tir Tanagiri into a kingdom ruled by justice under a single code of law. But where many see a hopeful future for the land, others believe they sense the seeds of a new tyranny. Soon Tir Tanagiri faces the blight of civil war, and Sulien ap Gwien must take up arms against former comrades and loved ones, fighting harder and harder to hold on to Urdo's shining dream.
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Discworld volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess, her family's inn, even though the revered national deity, Nuggan, has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination. To keep The Duchess in the family, Polly must find her missing sibling. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and sets out to join him in this man's army.
5) Front Lines
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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"1942, World War II. The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and eligible for service. So in this World War II, women and girls fight,...
7) Medalon
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Hythrun chronicles. Demon child volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 24
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English
Description
The Sisters of the Blade, backed by warriors known as the Defenders, have ruled Medalon for two centuries, forbidding pagan worship or belief in any god. The people of Karien, to the north, are fanatic worshipers of a single god, and to the south, fervent belief in the heathen gods prevails. Eighteen-year-old R'shiel has long fought her coldhearted mother's domination, but her half-brother, Tarja, is a colonel in the Defenders. When their mother becomes...
8) White Jenna
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Books of Great Alta volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Nebula Award Finalist: A long-awaited savior joins forces with her dark twin to confront the evil threatening their land in the second book of the acclaimed epic fantasy the Great Alta Saga Grown to young womanhood in the mountain region of the Dales and trained for combat by the all-female followers of the goddess Great Alta, Jenna reluctantly accepts the fact that she might well be the Anna, the warrior queen who has long been prophesied. Orphaned...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.
In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg lets Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words—not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbringing leads to a stint in...
In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg lets Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words—not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbringing leads to a stint in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
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"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Commander Honor Harrinton of the Royal Manticoran Navy has been exiled for making a superior officer look foolish. Now, she is in command of an aged light cruiser patrolling a godforsaken quadrant of the galaxy. To cap it all, the local system's aborigines smoke homicide-inducing hallucinogens.On Basilisk Station (or "HH1" as it's known to the faithful) is the first instalment in David Weber's cult hit Honor Harrington series, which has charmed the...
12) The defiant
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Valiant volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, the only thing that might save them is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.
13) Silver stars
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Women soldiers Frangie, Rainy and Rio accompany the American army to World War II Sicily, where they endure harrowing conditions on the front lines during the summer of 1943.
15) The king's peace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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Sulien Ap Gwien joins forces with King Urdo to try and save Caer Tanaga from the Jarnish raiders.
17) Fall of angels
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Saga of Recluce volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
A telling of how magic came to the world of Recluce.
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Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Like all young Israelis, Valřie Zenatti enlisted in the national defense service on her 18th birthday, where for the next two years she endured rigorous training and harsh living conditions, ultimately participating in top-secret missions with the secret service.
19) Brave enemies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When her husband is captured by the British, pregnant Josie Summers Trethman disguises herself as a man, joins the North Carolina militia, and finds herself trapped in the midst of Cowpens, the turning-point battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Like all young Israelis, Valérie Zenatti enlisted in the national defense service on her 18th birthday, where for the next two years she endured rigorous training and harsh living conditions, ultimately participating in top-secret missions with the secret service.
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