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1) Emma
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of the timeless classic, Emma, the story of the well-meaning matchmaker of High bury village. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin's series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as letters, invitations, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini, whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973 with a young son, and her grandfather Popo, a gentle African-American astronomer. When Popo dies, Maya goes off the rails. Along with a circle of girlfriends known as "the vampires,"...
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Series
Jessica Darling novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acerbic heroine Jessica Darling is faced with the post-college conundrum--what now?--in McCafferty's fourth (following Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings and Charmed Thirds). Her answer is to finally break it off with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, who, after cleaning up his drug habit, studying Buddhism and spending some time in Death Valley, is now at Princeton. But before she can break up with him, he pops the question, and she mulls...
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Series
Jessica Darling novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Jessica is off to a Caribbean wedding when she literally runs into her former boyfriend, Marcus Flutie. It's the first time she's seen him since she turned down his marriage proposal. They have both changed dramatically, yet their connection feels as familiar as ever.
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Series
[Carrie diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Brings surprising revelations as Carrie learns to navigate her way around Big Apple, going from being a country "sparrow" to the person she always wanted to be.
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Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own...
9) The eagle
Author
Series
Spy Girl volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The world's most deadly assassin, a man known only as The Priest, has come back from the dead to take a series of high profile hits. When the assassin complete his first task--shooting an important world leader, the global community goes into collective shock and his government vows retaliation. With her cover firmly cemented as Huntley Von Allister, Spy Girl's vacation on the Royal Yacht is cut short when she's called home for her next mission--and,...
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Series
Prairie Legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As graduation day approaches, eighteen-year-old Virginia Simpson is more than ready to head off to college, reunite with her childhood sweetheart, and finally be allowed to embrace the freeedom of adulthood. But when a family crisis forces her to abandon her carefully laid plans, Virginia learns the deeper meaning of "growing into adulthood." - Back cover.
11) The prince
Author
Series
Spy Girl volume 1
Language
English
Description
An eighteen-year-old covert agent is pulled out of training before graduation by Black X, a espionage group so secret even the President of the United States doesn't know it exists. For her first mission, she must go undercover as the long-lost daughter of a recently deceased billionaire, infiltrate high society, and protect the Prince of Montrovia from assassination. But Prince Lorenzo is known as the Playboy Prince for a reason and his sensuality...
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Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Rosebud have never met but they share a birth year, a name, and a bloody pair of sneakers. Rose's quest to atone for the accident that kills Rosebud, a young woman so much like herself but for the color of her skin, unfolds alongside Rosebud's battle to survive the devastating flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward and to find help for her unstable mother.
13) Mortal Queens
Author
Series
Fae Dynasty volume 01
Language
English
Description
"They vanish without a trace. Disappear into the night... Each year on the center island, one girl is chosen to be the next Mortal Queen of the idolized fae. The mortals praise these lucky girls, but their daughters are never seen again. The fae realm is eternal night, where disputes are settled by chess matches, power is acquired through the most devious kinds of trickery, and seven illusive kings roam. The fae hide their faces behind masks and guard...
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Language
English
Description
Being a teen-ager during World War II is tough. Finding out you're the next keeper of the real Cinderella's dresses is even tougher. Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she's working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella's dresses, life gets complicated. Now, with a father missing in action, her new sweetheart...
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Language
English
Description
Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. Cerys knows this all too well: When she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. Now Cerys...
16) Muse
Author
Series
Muse duology volume 1
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. But Claire Emerson has a bigger problem. Claire's father is a sought-after inventor, but he believes his genius is a gift granted to him by his daughter's touch, so he keeps Claire under his control. As their province prepares for war, Claire plans to escape, even as her best friend, Beatrix, tries to convince her to stay and help with the growing resistance...
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Series
Athena Protocol volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jessie Archer faced down death to prove her dedication to Athena, the elite organization of female spies she works for. Now she's back on the team, in time to head to Pakistan to take down the man whose actions spurred Athena's founders to create the secretive squad. But his connections spread farther than anyone knew, and when a girls school in Mumbai is bombed, a shadowy far-right organization reveals itself and its evil plans to continue attacks....
18) The gaps
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Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Everyone is affected by Yin's disappearance--even scholarship student Chloe, who usually stays out of Balmoral dramas, is drawn into the maelstrom. And when she begins to form an uneasy alliance with Natalia, the queen...
19) A loyal heart
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When Lady Olivia's castle is besieged she will do anything to save her family including giving up the prestigious match her father has arranged with a wealthy marquis in order to marry a lowly knight instead.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Englishwoman Ellen Carr, a housemother at an unorthodox boarding school in Vienna, has made a happy life for herself and the other workers and students she has taken under her wing, but the idyllic world she has created is disrupted when Hitler begins his reign of terror.
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