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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.--
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat to once and for all"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices have led to one last hedonistic hurrah as Monty, his best friend and crush Percy, and Monty's sister Felicity begin a Grand Tour of Europe. When a reckless decision turns their trip abroad into a harrowing...
9) Frozen
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to speak or remember the events surrounding her mother's mysterious death eleven years earlier, sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose, the foster child of a corrupt senator in 1920s northern Minnesota, struggles to regain her voice, memory, and identity.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate to escape his father's high expectations and his own grief in the aftermath of his mother's passing, sole heir Adrian Montague embarks on a search for his disowned siblings after discovering that he is not an only child.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sybella accompanies the Duchess to France, she expects trouble, but she isn't expecting a deadly trap. Surrounded by enemies both known and unknown, Sybella searches for the undercover assassins from the convent of St. Mortain who were placed in the French court years ago. Genevieve has been undercover for so many years, she no longer knows who she is or what she's supposed to be fighting for. When she discovers a hidden prisoner who may be of...
12) Hattie Big Sky
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
13) Now I rise
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lada Dracul seeks her younger brother Radu's help in securing the Wallachian throne, but their father, Sultan Mehmed, has sent him to sabotage Constantinople.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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.
15) House of furies
Author
Series
House of furies volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Escaping from her harsh school before finding work as a maid in an English boarding house, Louisa realizes that her mysterious employer and his staff execute cruel judgments on the guests.
16) Girls like us
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up in Alaska in the 1970s isn't like growing up anywhere else: Don't think life is going to be easy. Know your place. And never talk about yourself. Four vivid voices tell intertwining stories of hardship, tragedy, wild luck, and salvation"--
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After Isabelle's father tragically passes away, she and her mother move from Milwaukee to Minneapolis in the early 1960s, where Isabelle finds herself trying to escape her grief via the lives of her overly attentive landladies, the McCarthy sisters, and new friendships with classmates Margaret and Grace.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
20) Court of shadows
Author
Series
House of furies volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After the frightful events of last autumn, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton has settled into her role as a maid at Coldthistle House, but she has not settled into what that means for her humanity. As Louisa struggles to figure out whether she is worthy of redemption, the devilish Mr. Morningside plans a fete- one that will bring new guests to Coldthistle House. From wicked humans to Upworlders, angelic beings who look down upon Mr. Morningside's monstrous...
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