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1) Jo's boys
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Jo's boys, and how they turned out: A sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's "children", now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. The book mostly follows the lives of Plumfield boys who were introduced in Little Men, particularly Tommy, Emil, Demi, Nat, Dan, and Professor Bhaer and Jo's sons Rob and Teddy,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March -- now Jo Bhaer -- couldn't be happier. But despite the warm and affectionate help of the whole March family, boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and there are plenty of troubles and adventures in store.
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Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
"Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess tells the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl who has been left at a boarding school by her wealthy father. There, she displays all the attributes of an ideal pupil, treating the other children with kindness and compassion. But the headmistress, Miss Minchin, is jealous of Sara's wealth and seizes the first opportunity to put the young girl "in her place" when misfortune strikes. This handsome Word Cloud...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.9 - AR Pts: 71
Lexile measure
1310L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little Men' was first published in 1886 as the final book in the Little Women series. In it, Jo's children, now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. The book follows the lives of Plumfield boys who were introduced in Little Men, particularly Tommy, Emil, Demi, Nat, Dan, and Professor Bhaer as well as Jo's sons Rob and Teddy. The book takes place ten years after Little Men." --Provided by publisher....
10) Bloomability
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
11) Witch week
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Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned.
13) Belzhar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
14) Rebel angels
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Series
Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
15) Jellicoe Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
High school student Taylor Markham, who was abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, fifteen-year-old Sophronia tries to uncover who is behind a plot to control a prototype that has the potential to alter human and supernatural travel, and to learn what role Mademoiselle Geraldine's academy for young spies plays in the affair.
17) Without mercy
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Language
English
Description
Jules Farentino knows that her teenaged half-sister, Shaylee, has been having problems lately. But when she learns of her mother's plan to send Shay to an elite boarding school, she's skeptical. The Academy is a remote, secluded institution with a reputation. But one of its students went missing six months ago and has never surfaced. And the further Jules digs, the more concerned she becomes. On impulse, Jules applies for a teaching job at the Academy,...
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Language
English
Description
Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy, and Sean-each bursting with their own personality, strikingly different looks and talents, in sports, science, and the arts. Each drawn by the magical spark of connection that happens to the young. At the exclusive Atwood School, on a bright September day, starting in kindergarten they become an inseparable group known to outsiders as the Big Five. In this rarefied world, five families grow closer, and five children bloom...
19) Little men
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
The lovable Jo March-introduced to us in Little Women-is now married, with two sons of her own and an adopted family of twelve boys. And she couldn't be happier. Since starting an informal school at Plumfield, Jo and Professor Bhaer provide a haven for poor orphaned boys who thrive on warmth, goodness, and the affectionate interest of the March and Bhaer families. Sometimes it's difficult to tame the manners and spirits of wild boys who have had no...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
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