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81) The Winter War
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Russian troops invade Finland during the winter of 1939-40, Marko, a young polio victim determined to keep his homeland free, joins the Finnish Army as a messenger boy.
82) How do you live?
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, fifteen-year-old Copper struggles to confront inevitable and enormous change after his father's death and his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and advice in 1937 Japan.
85) Ruby red
Author
Series
Ruby red trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When her Uncle Frank is executed for treason against England's King George in 1746 and his severed head is mounted on a pike for public viewing, daring Alice tries to reclaim the head for a proper burial, finding an unlikely ally in the soft-hearted executioner, while incurring the wrath of the royal guard.
87) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Sig Andersson, who lives in an isolated cabin in the Arctic Circle, confronts a stranger who has come to take revenge on Sig's dead father for his actions when the two men knew each other during the Alaska Gold Rush.
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Adbo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses how in 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people stood up for their rights against a society that criminalized their natural feelings, launching a movement whose legacy continues to this day.
89) Picture the dead
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.
91) Free-fire zone
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
Author
Series
Inventor's secret volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future.
93) Sapphire blue
Author
Series
Ruby red trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers.
94) Lucky strikes
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together. --Publisher
95) Newt's emerald
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After the Newington Emerald is stolen at the height of a conjured storm, eighteen-year-old Lady Truthful Newington goes to London, disguised as a man, to search for the magical heirloom of her house, and is soon caught up in a dangerous adventure where she must risk her life, her reputation, and her heart.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob in what became known as the Elaine Massacre. Others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved, answered the call and represented the...
98) Everlasting
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1855, seventeen-year-old Camille sets out from San Francisco, California, on her last sea voyage before entering a loveless marriage, but when her father's ship is destroyed, she and a friend embark on a cross-Australian quest to find her long-lost mother who holds a map to a magical stone.
Author
Series
Hush volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.
100) A skinful of shadows
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Makepeace, the illegitimate daughter of a rich father, must fight the spirit that possesses her, her family's terrible secret, and the dangers of of a war-torn country.
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