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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"At first Tally doesn't want to go to the boarding school called Delderton. But she soon discovers that it is a wonderful place where freedom and self expression are valued. Tally organizes a ragtag dance troupe so the school can participate in an international folk dancing festival in Bergania in the summer of 1939. There she befriends Karil, the crown prince, who would love nothing more than to have ordinary friends and attend a school like Delderton....
3) Just one day
Author
Series
Just one day duet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and the search for true love."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Includes author's note which details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
This Edgar Award-winning cozy mystery series for middle-graders introduces us to Myrtle Hardcastle, everyone's favorite 12-year-old amateur detective and Young Lady of Quality. Wickedly smart and keenly interested in the new tools of criminology, Myrtle has a nose for murder in the Victorian English village where she lives with her father, who is the local prosecutor, and her governess, Miss Judson. More mysteries await in How to Get Away with Myrtle...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself.
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ginny Blackstone spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt laid out in a series of letters before she died. When someone stole Ginnys backpack, and the last little blue envelope inside, she resigned herself to never knowing how the adventure was supposed to end. Now a mysterious boy has contacted Ginny from London, saying he has found her bag. Finally Ginny can finish what she started. But instead of ending her journey,...
11) Gittel's hands
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Yakov boasts of his daughter's abilities but doesn't allow Gittel to speak for herself until the day she makes an Elijah cup which amazes even her father.
12) A peculiar peril
Author
Series
Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The first book in a two-volume fantasy about a teenaged boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's ties to an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic"--
Author
Series
Wells & Wong mysteries volume 3
A Wells and Wong mystery
Murder most unladylike mystery volume 3
Wells and Wong mysteries volume 3
A Wells and Wong mystery
Murder most unladylike mystery volume 3
Wells and Wong mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the world-famous Orient Express. From the moment the girls step aboard, it's clear that each of their fellow first-class passengers has something to hide. Even more intriguing: rumour has it that there is a spy in their midst. Then, during dinner, there is a scream from inside one of the cabins. When the door is broken down, a passenger is found murdered, her stunning ruby necklace gone. But the killer...
14) The shadow war
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"World War II is raging, and five teens are looking to make a mark. Daniel and Rebeka seek revenge against the Nazis who slaughtered their family; Simone is determined to fight back against the oppressors who ruined her life and corrupted her girlfriend; Phillip aims to prove that he's better than his worst mistakes; and Liam is searching for a way to control the portal to the shadow world he's uncovered, and the monsters that live within it - before...