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(0)Julie Berry
1) Lovely war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of Word Wars I and II, where Gods hold the fates - and the hearts - of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect turned soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the US Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years later, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family. Unable to speak, Judith lives like a ghost in her own home, silently pouring out her thoughts to the boy who's owned her heart as long as she can remember- even if he doesn't know it- her childhood friend, Lucas. But when Roswell...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Seven very proper Victorian young ladies conspire to hide a murder from the authorities at their boarding school"--
"There's a murderer on the loose--but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce. The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, have been...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow, Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a magical map to guide her. Meanwhile, the Emperor has gone missing from the royal palace in a most mysterious manner. Was it murder? Was it magic? It will take all of Begonia's wits to save the empire and get Alfalfa home safely"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger.
