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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
Author
Series
Nancy Clancy volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom has gone viral. Will Nancy's humiliation get the best of...
Author
Language
English
Description
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
"This is a book in which storylines twist, spiral and come together again in an ending as explosive as a poof of smoke from your chimney...or a top hat."—Oprah.com
Master of historical fiction Greer Macallister weaves the tale of a notorious female illusionist who stands accused of her husband's murder—and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, sixteen-year-old Sydney Hart was kicked out of the prestigious Burke Academy when her mother could no longer afford the tuition. She lost a promising future in the arts, as well as her best friend, who didn't want to be seen with an art-academy reject. But now, without Burke's rigid structure, Sydney has found her true passion in performance painting and is busking on Halifax's boardwalk to earn enough money to go to art camp. After...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine,...
10) Annie Oakley
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retelling of the life of Annie Oakley, from her humble beginnings in Ohio to becoming a world-wide legend as a sharpshooter.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Fred the street musician and his cat are "purr-fectly" happy, singing together all day long, until Fred gives chase to a thief and the two become separated.
12) Here we are
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve: a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie's glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean and one of the trifecta will vanish forever. All three friends...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen it all. In the Hall of Ugliness the competition was stiff. But noone had ever seen anything quite like Julia . . . Pronounced by the most eminent physician of the day to be "a true hybrid wherein the nature of woman...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The son of a woman who works at a U.S. Army base in Germany in the 1950s, Orson becomes an ardent fan of a G.I. stationed at the base, but when he steals recordings of Elvis Presley's music, he attracts the attention of the popular singer, launching a friendship that lasts a lifetime.
16) Goblin secrets
Author
Series
Zombay volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.
17) Tithe
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
After returning home from a tour with her mother's rock band, sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
Fierce and independent, Kaye drifts from place to place with her mother's rock band. When an ominous attack forces them back to Kaye's childhood home, she stumbles upon an injured faerie knight in the woods. Kaye has always been able to...
19) City of girls
Author
Language
English
Description
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
In a world bound for an epic flood, Natasha, a Principal Flyer in the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, will do anything to save her family, but unbeknownst to her, her newest recruit has plans of her own.
In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, along with their guards. The fate of the court's...
