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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from work, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander,...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 157
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Maisie Dobbs is hired to find the missing daughter of a wealthy grocery magnate, she discovers that three of the heiress's friends have died violently, leading her to investigate the connection between the disappearance and the murders.
5) Maisie Dobbs
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Young, feisty Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways. Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War, Maisie has wisdom, experience and understanding beyond her years. Little does she realise the extent to which this strength of character is soon to...
Author
Series
Private volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games' organizing...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tasha and Emily each have their reasons for wanting a semester abroad, and they will have to depend on on each other for tips on fitting in, finding love, and figuring out who they really are.
8) Bleak house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Formats
Description
The English equity court of the nineteenth century is satirized in Dicken's tale about the suit of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Includes two of George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state, and the enslavement of the individual. 1984 is a political fiction and dystopian science fiction which is set in Airstrip One (formerly Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. Animal farm is an allegorical novel that reflects events leading up to the...
Author
Series
Steampunk chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
London, 1897. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation -- an automaton more human than machine.
11) The look
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
Author
Series
Barker and Llewelyn volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Hired to investigate a mysterious video collection that has been appearing on the Internet, market research consultant Cayce Pollard realizes that there is more to the assignment when her computer is hacked.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
“Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is...
“Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is...
15) Meant to be
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
During an educational trip to London, away from her friends and the boy she thinks she is fated to love, Massachussets high school junior Julia Lichtenstein is paired with her nemesis, Jason, and begins seeing many things differently.
Author
Series
Madman's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Juliet struggles to forget Dr. Moreau's horrific legacy only to confront what she fears is one of her father's murderous creations and her own worsening illness.
17) Zom-B baby
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Grateful for the company of The Angels, B nevertheless questions their mission to eradicate the living dead from the face of the earth, and encounters a horror beyond imagining"--
Author
Series
Bride trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
During a stopover on an island in the East Indies on his voyage to London, wealthy American merchant Gavin Elliott rescues beautiful widow Alexandra Warren, kidnapped by pirates, from a slave auction.
19) The fear
Author
Series
(Charles)Enemy volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In London, after a worldwide sickness infects adults, turning them into zombie-like creatures, DogNut and his crew embark on a deadly mission to find missing friends, as hungry, bloodthirsty grownups lie in wait.
20) Zom-B angels
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Near to giving up hope in a London overrun by zombies, B meets The Angels, a group gathered to fight the living dead and the forces that introduced them"--
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