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Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"When we were seven or eight or nine or ten, our home was the old city of Prague." So begins this powerful story of the children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, as Hitler's campaign of hatred toward Jews and political dissidents took hold. Told from the collective perspective of the children, the narrative starts in 1938 and follows them as they journey to foster families in England for the duration of the war, return...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
3) Black Beauty
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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First published in 1877. Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead, describes his idyllic days on a country squire's estate and his harsh fate as a London cab horse.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When the proprietor of Leighton's Mercantile is found dead on the morning his annual Christmas shop display is to be unveiled, it's clear a killer had revenge in mind. When the killer strikes again, each time manipulating the figures in the display to foretell the crime, Myrtle finds herself racing to uncover the long-buried facts of a cold case -- and the motivations of a modern murderer.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England.
When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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He robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, and had escapades enough to please any adventure-loving child. Now even the youngest readers can have the chance to enter Sherwood Forest with Robin's band of merry men, and meet such unforgettable characters as Friar Tuck, Little John, Allan-a-Dale, the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham, and wicked King John.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
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Series
Squire's Tale series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Sir Dinadan and his friend Sir Palomides, Sir Gaheris, Sir Terence, and other knights of the Round Table and their associates try to stop Mordred and his White Horsemen from ending King Arthur's rule of Great Britain.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Mary Anning grew up on the south coast of England in a region rich in fossils. As teenagers, she and her brother Joseph discovered England’s first complete ichthyosaur. Poor and uneducated, Anning would become one of the most celebrated paleontologists ever, though in her time she supported herself selling by fossils and received little formal recognition. Her findings helped shape scientific thinking about extinction and prehistoric life long...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Lexie and her cousin, Eleni, are super-mega-extra-seriously close. They're like twins who aren't actually twins, if that's possible. But when Lexie tells a terrible, jealous lie, her whole family is split apart. It's up to Lexie to bring them all back together and fix her relationship with Eleni. After a few calamitous escapades, Lexie has discovered that there are all sorts of truths and all sorts of lies...But can telling the truth be more hurtful...
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Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
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Ash Mistry chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
When British schoolboy Ash Mistry goes to India for a vacation, he quickly falls into a world of rakshasas, or demons, overseen by the evil Lord Alexander Savage.
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Squire's Tale series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Headstrong sixteen-year-old Lady Luneta and her distant cousin, Sir Ywain, travel to Camelot and beyond finding more adventure than they hoped for until, with the help of a fool, Luneta discovers what she really wants from life.
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