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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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In 1586 England, sixteen-year-old Mercy Hart, daughter of one of London's wealthiest and most devout merchants, considers renouncing her family for love of Kit, a lowly actor and playboy, until Kit is accused of treason, testing Mercy's resolve.
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Luxe volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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As rumors continue about the untimely demise of Elizabeth Holland, an outwardly stricken Penelope Hayes determines to use any means necessary to claim her friend's pre-eminent place in 1899 Manhattan society and to get and keep the attentions of Elizabeth's former fiance, the wealthy Henry Schoonmaker.
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In 1384 England, seventeen-year-old Evangeline, ward and cousin of King Richard II, tries to escape from an arranged marriage, dreaming of a life outside Berkhamsted Castle, where she might be free to marry for love and not politics, but when she runs away and joins a small band of servants on their way back to their home village, she finds herself embroiled in a tangled web that threatens England's monarch.
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Abigail Westcott's dreams for her future were lost when her father died and she discovered her parents were not legally married. But now, six years later, she enjoys the independence a life without expectation provides a wealthy single woman. Indeed, she's grown confident enough to scold the careless servant chopping wood outside without his shirt on in the proximity of ladies. But the man is not a servant. He is Gilbert Bennington, the lieutenant...
68) Blythewood: bk.1
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary"--
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Vampire Academy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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While Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's Academy, she must make a terrible choice.
70) Haunting Violet
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Sixteen-year-old Violet Willoughby has been part of her mother's Spiritualist scam since she was nine, but during an 1872 house party in Hampshire, England, she is horrified to learn that she can actually see ghosts, one of whom wants Violet to solve her murder.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
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Set in contemporary Bombay, it tells the story of Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and Bhima, the woman who works as a domestic servant in her home. Despite their class differences, the two women are bound by the bonds of gender and shared life experiences - both had marriages that started out with great romantic love and promise, but ended up as crushing disappointments. Ultimately, Sera Dubash faces a decision that will force her...
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Blackcoat rebellion volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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To defeat the corrupt government, Kitty Doe must expose Prime Minister Daxton's secret. Securing evidence will put others in jeopardy, including the boy she's loved forever and an ally she barely trust.
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Girls of Paper and Fire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of the plan---it's just the beginning. Now Lei...
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Eleanor Hopkins has lived in disappointment for far too long believing that her husband only married her for fortune, and she determines to protect her own daughters from such misery by scheming to secure offers for both Lucy and Caroline based on mutual rank and reputation. When Caroline finds that the handsome and reputable Lord Searly desires her as his wife, she finds that no amount of planning or pretending can convince her to accept him. Instead,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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In the segregated South of the early 1960s, Mary Swan Middleton tries to cope with her grief over a family tragedy by reaching out to Atlanta's poor and meets Carl, who is her opposite in every way but helps her to see beyond her privileged life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Now a Fives Challenger, Jes travels the countryside to compete against adversaries of similar skill levels, using the opportunity to search for her missing twin sister, Bettany, only to be thrown into the center of the war that Lord Kalliarkos--the boy she still loves--is fighting against their country's enemies"--
78) Everless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In the kingdom of Sempera, time is extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocrats like the Gerling family tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember; she and her father were once servants at their estate, Everless, until an accident drove them away. After discovering her father is dying, Jules is desperate to earn more...
79) Divergente
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Español
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Una elección que delimita quiénes son tus amigos. Una elección que define tus creencias. Una elección que determina tus lealtades... para siempre.
Una sola elección puede transformarte.
En el Chicago distópico de Beatrice, la sociedad está dividida en cinco facciones. En una ceremonia anual, todos los chicos de dieciséis años deben decidir a qué facción dedicarán el resto de sus vidas. Beatrice tiene
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"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles....
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