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1) Castles
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This children's history book has everything you need to know about medieval castles, including knights, jousting, sieges, drawbridges, and forts. Learn about castle design, from the earliest motte and bailey styles to stone fortresses and beautiful castles in Japan and India.
2) Castle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the history and characteristics of castles around the world, including how they were constructed to protect and defend the people who lived there.
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Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband's ancestors, an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are having a sleepover-in a castle! Dink's favorite mystery writer, Wallis Wallace, hjas invited them for a visit. But as soon they arrive they start hearing screams behind the walls. Not to worry every castle is haunted.
7) Castle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
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In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit. Architecture enthusiasts of all ages will marvel at the staggering possibilities of human imagination and ingenuity
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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A reprint of the 1949 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.
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Boxcar children volume 36
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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The Alden children have another mystery to solve when they visit a castle and must figure out which of the guests has stolen the Stradivarius violin.
14) Leap of faith
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A young woman, Marie-Ange Hawkins, returns to her childhood home in France and marries a dashing young widower, Comte Bernard de Beauchamp. The Comte seems like the perfect husband, but nothing is quite what it seems. After a chilling revelation, Marie-Ange must make a final leap of faith to ensure the survival of herself and her loved ones.
15) Pure dead magic
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Pure dead magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a giant tarantula use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father...
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Deverill chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory -- to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle. Kitty herself is raising a young family, but she longs for Jack O'Leary -- the long-ago sweetheart she cannot have. And soon Kitty must make a heartbreaking...
19) Pure Dead Wicked
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Pure dead magic volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
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The Strega-Boriga children accidentally create 500 clones of themselves at the same time that the roof on their Scottish castle falls in, attracting evil contractors who want their home.