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21) Faceless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Growing up in 1943 war-torn England, thirteen-year-old Alice and her older sister Louise are members of a centuries-old spy clan, but when Louise decides to spy for the enemy, their bond is changed forever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
23) To be a king
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and searches for the ideal place to establish an order of free owls.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soren and Coryn read the ancient legends of Ga'Hoole in order to find a way to prevent the victory of evil in their present world.
Author
Series
Bears of the ice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but nobody is truly safe when a way of life is collapsing around...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
28) The searchers
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Series
Language
English
Description
When swan Elsinore, the beavers' beloved mother figure, is kidnapped by dark forces, Dunwattle and Locksley set out to find her, but little do they know, they have a much larger expedition in store when they discover other persecuted animals being held against their will for nefarious purposes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble. When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister, a member of the famous and feared Night Witches-a brigade of young female pilots....
Author
Series
Bears of the ice volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cubs Stellan and Jytte survived their treacherous trek across the Nunquivik, but their quest to rescue their mother has only begun. Svenna is imprisoned at the sinister Ice Clock--the headquarters of the Gran Patek, whose dangerous influence is spreading throughout the bear kingdom. Only one bear has ever stood up to the Grand Patek--Svern, the cubs' father, a famous warrior who's been in exile for years. And so, along with their friend, Third, the...
31) The escape
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Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The book tells the story of astronomer Williamina Fleming, who immigrated to the U.S. as a housemaid and went on to become a pioneer in her field and the first woman to hold an official title at Harvard University.
33) Exile
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Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Striga, a mysterious owl from the Middle Kingdom, takes over young King Coryn's mind and institutes a tyrannical new regime, the Band, exiled for their loyalty to Coryn, seek to free him and the kingdom from this threat.
34) Light on bone
Author
Series
Georgia O'Keeffe mystery volume 01
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Lasky has written an exciting new adult amateur sleuth mystery set in New Mexico in the 1930s. The sleuth is Georgia O'Keefe, who actually did suffer a nervous breakdown in 1933 when her husband Alfred Stieglitz had a somewhat public affair, was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment, and then traveled to the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico to paint. O'Keefe was approaching the peak of her fame and success, having just sold a painting for a record...
36) The extra
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Instead of being sent to a concentration camp with most of the Nazis' Gypsy prisoners, fifteen-year-old Lilo is picked out of a lineup by Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, to work as an extra in her new movie. Lilo, her mother, and her new friend Django soon find themselves in the alternate reality of a film set. Amid glamorous surroundings, the Gypsy extras are barely fed and kept locked in a barn when they're not working. At the center...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antoina Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
39) Hannah
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
