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Louisa May Alcott created a story that impresses through its simplicity and is able to help teenagers regain their trust and self-confidence even today. Exploring themes that revolve around family issues, being disregarded and rejected by friends, and the struggles of a young girl in the big city, An Old-Fashioned Girl is a tale that girls and women are able to closely identify with, many having been able to find solace in Alcott's fascinating and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"There was one passenger in the coach,-a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress. She was so slender and so stiffly starched that she slid from space to space on the leather cushions, though she braced herself against the middle seat with her feet and extended her cotton-gloved hands on each side, in order to maintain some sort of balance. Whenever the wheels sank farther than usual into a rut, or jolted suddenly over a stone, she bounded...
4) Little women
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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English
Description
Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
6) Ox-cart man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
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Series
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Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Gerald finds himself the heir to twenty billion pounds from an aunt he never met, he inherits with it a mystery surrounding his aunt's death and various artifacts in the British Museum.
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English
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"When their father is taken away suddenly, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis are forced to leave London for a simple life in the country. They make new friends and discover the thrill of the railway, eventually unravelling the mystery of his disappearance." --Page 4 of cover.
9) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
10) The hollow boy
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Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
"Anthony, George, and Lucy investigate new hauntings, track down assassins, and a new assistant joins Lockwood & Co"--
11) Ptolemy's gate
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily are recruited by a talking cat to assist her and M16 in foiling the dastardly plans of their great-great-uncle, a chocolatier who used magic to make a candy that bestows immortality.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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"A terrible crime forces Lockwood to turn to Lucy for help, setting them on the trail of dark secrets at the heart of London society. Both professionally and personally, their investigation stirs up forces they may not be able to control. . . "--
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Christopher Rowe is shipwrecked in Devonshire, where children are disappearing and a ghost is suspected, but even Tom and Sally's arrival may not cure his amnesia in time to help.
17) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Editions/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
James, one of Peter's original Lost Boys, is now working for Scotland Yard and suspects that the heir to England's throne, Prince Albert Edward, is under the influence of shadow creatures who are after starstuff hidden in an underground vault which has only one key: the Sword of Mercy. Molly is determined to help, but when she suddenly goes missing, it's up to her eleven-year-old daughter, Wendy, to keep the starstuff out of the creatures' clutches...
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